8 Cypripedia. 



national Horticultural Exhibition in London last summer, a plant in full 

 bloom was exhibited, with four flowers to the raceme, and seven in all on 

 the plant. It is said to throw spikes with five to seven flowers on each. 

 It is of the Stonei class, but darker altogether, although not so large ; its 

 great peculiarity and beauty being the long twisted tails, which are different 

 from all others, but not so long as those of caudatuni. C. Pearcei is a 

 very pretty, distinct, and free-flowering species, lately brought out. It comes 

 from Peru. Its foliage is long and very narrow, of a dark green, the leaves 

 being less than half an inch in width. The flowers are produced several 

 on a stem, and are of a light glossy green and white. It has short tails 

 in the way of C. caudatum. It has been called, by some botanists, C. 

 caricinum. C. villosum, from Borneo, has a very large flower, olive-brown 

 in color, and so glossed as to seem literally varnished. My plant is very 

 vigorous, some of the leaves being eighteen inches in length. It has four 

 shoots, but only one flower-stem, the blossom of which is now fully 

 expanded. 



At the International Horticultural Exhibition in London last summer, a 

 single noble plant of this species was shown with thirty perfect flowers. 

 The flower-stem bristles with thick hairs, which are violet at the base, and 

 white or whitish at the ends. 



C. Schlimi, from New Grenada, is the most difficult of all to grow. My 

 plant is eking out a miserable existence, and, I am confident, is afflicted 

 with an incurable consumption. It wants to be kept wet and cold ; for it 

 belongs to a high range of country, and was found originally at an eleva- 

 tion of four thousand feet above the sea-level. It is crimson and white, 

 and the prettiest of the family in color, though not so large as C. Stoftei, 

 which is similar in color, but not so brilliant. C. Schlimi, however, has not 

 the showy tails which are a striking feature of C. Stonei. 



C- Veitchii has a magnificent flower ; perhaps the largest of the exotic 

 species. Its leaves are boldly marbled with two shades of green, and are 

 very striking. My plant bloomed finely last spring. Its synonymes are 

 C. supcrbiens and C. harbatujn grandijlontfn. It is quite distinct, however, 

 from all the barbata ; is a lively brown in color, and not purple. 



C. concolor is pale yellow, with small purple dots scattered over the se- 

 pals, petals, and lip. It has a very short stem, — just long enough to raise 



