CYPRIPEDIUM;: aes 339 
keeled -on the back; spurs varying in thickness and length, usually twice as. long as 
the ovary (quite short in var. ciliata). Column curved, contracted at the base, expanded 
at the apex. Stigma projecting forwards above the anther, convex, anticous. Anther- 
cells turgid, distant from each other, sub-parallel on. the sides of the column at a 
lower level than the stigma; pollinia two, pyriform, bipartite, each ending rather abruptly 
in a slender curved caudicle directed downwards and forwards, and terminated by в 
thick discoid gland. Staminodes rugulose, hemispheric, situated on the upper sides of 
the anther-cells; rostellum broadly and bluntly triangular, having the anther-cells at its 
upper corners. Lindl. Gen. and Spec. Orch. 340; in Journ. Linn. Soc. III, 44; Wight 
Ic. t. 929; Bot. Mag. t. 6625; Wall Cat. 7025; Hook, fil. Fl, Br. Ind. VI, 168, 
S. Perrotfetianum, A: Rich. in Ann. Se. Nat, Ser. 2, XV, 76, t. 53; Wight lc. 
t. 1716. S. albiflorum, А. Rich. 1. с.; Wight Ic. t. 1717. 8. pallidum, A. Rich. 1. c. 
Sikkim and Bhotan, very common at elevations of from 8,000 to 10,000 feet; in 
flower during September and October; Pantling No. 464. Distributed westwards along 
the range to Kashmir, where it descends to 4,000 feet; Khasia Hills, about 6,000 feet; 
the hill ranges of Southern India; Upper Burma. 
Var. CILIATA; whole plant vias & foot in height; spurs of lip shorter than the 
boldly ciliate sepals; petals erose; stigma convex, over-arching, hispid; rostellum truncate; 
caudicles exceeding in Jength the cleft pollinia, S. ciliatum, Lindl, Gen. and Spec. 
1. c. 341. 
In Sikkim and Bhotan at the same elevations as the typical form and growing 
intermixed with it; Pantling No. 297, 
The usual colour of the flowers is rose-pink, but occasionally it is pure white. The 
flowers smell faintly of musk. In the Nilgiri and other of the hill ranges of Southern 
India a form occurs with a much shorter and very densely-flowered spike and with 
broad radical leaves. This has been separated off as a variety under the name Wightiana. 
It is never found in Sikkim, ‘where the variety named ciliata is very common. 
PrnarE 444.—Satyrium nepalense, Don. Parts of a plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower with its 
deflexed bract, 2 view of the back of a flower showing the two spurs, 3 apex of ovary and column, seen 
from the front (the sepals and petals having been removed), showing the anther and the glands of its 
pollinia, the stigma (s), and the rostellum (r), 4 pollinia; 477 enlarged. 
‘PLATE 444 bis.—Satyrium nepalense, Don, var. ciliata, An entire plant, of natural size. Fig. 1 a flower 
with its bract, front view, 2 flower and ovary, back view, 3 apex of ovary and column, the two petals 
(р) and the dorsal sepal (s/) in position, the rostellum (ғ), anther-cells (p), gland of a pollen-mass 
(9), stigma (в), and staminode (c), 4 pollinia; a// enlarged. 
Tribe VII.—CYPRIPEDIEAE. 
Perfect anthers two, one on each side of the conjoined stigmas. Staminode single, 
rid fleshy; lip large, saccate. 
91. Cypripedium, Linn, 
Torrestrial. herbs, stemless or with a leafy annual stem. Leaves coriaceous, ever- 
green, smooth and often coloured; or membranous, deciduous and plicate, Flowers large, 
