CYPRIPEDIUM. | 941 
Sikkim, in tropical valleys asceuding to 4,000 feet; flowering during February and 
March; Pantling No. 253. | wo | | 
The dorsal sepal is white with dark green vertical stripes; the petals are green 
and purplish with a few black spots; the lip is yellowish-green flushed with pink and 
beautifully reticulated with green; the inflexed lateral edges which partially close the 
mouth are yellow. 
Ртлте 445.—Cypripedium venustum, Wall. A plant, of natural sise. Fig. 1 front view of the 
staminode and stigma, 2 profile view of the same; both enlarged. 
2. CYPRIPEDIUM ELEGANS, Reichb. fil. in Flora 1886, 560. 
Height of the entire plant not exceeding 4 in. Stem and peduncle pubescent, the 
former bearing at the base a lax tubular acute sheath, and at the apex a pair of 
opposite almost orbicular, sessile, puberulous, plicate leaves from 1°25 to 1'5 in. in 
diam. Scape shorter than the leaves, bearing a single flower 1 in. in diam. vertically 
at the mouth and :65 in. horizontally; floral bract 775 in. long, ovate-lanceolate, 
puberulous, much longer than the short ovary and equalling the flower. Dorsal sepal 
narrowly ovate; the lateral pair united under the lip to form a body wider than the 
dorsal sepal. Petals lanceolate, concave, spreading slightly, but their apices curving 
slightly inwards. Lip shorter than the sepals, depressed, the sides abruptly infolded, the 
upper surface with three parallel crenulate wavy ridges proceeding from the mouth to 
the apex and uniting there, the apical part of the cavity of the lip with a fleshy 
plate extending from the upper to the lower wall and dividing it into two loculi. 
Slaminode transversely elliptic. Stigma pyriform in outline, hispid. Hook. fil. Fl, Br. 
Ind. VI, 169. Franchet Cypriped. Asie Occ. et Orient., 15; Krüntzlin Orch. Gen. et 
Spec. I, 30. 
Sikkim, in the Lachen Valley, elevation 10,000 feet; in flower during July; 
Pantling No. 387. 
The colour of the flowers is brownish, with darker lines of the same colour. 
PLATE 446.— Cypripedium elegans, Reichb, fl. Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 front view of 
the lip, 2 vertical section of the lip to show one of the inflexed sides and the partition which divides 
the apical portion into two imperfect chambers, 3 front view of staminode and anthers, 4 profile view 
of the same; ай enlarged. pte da 
3. CxrmrPEDIUM TIBETICUM, King ex Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. 
XXIX, 320. 
Height of entire plant not exceeding 12 in. Stem sheathed at the base by two 
or three very unequal, wide, sheathing, sub-acute bracts. Leaves three, close together on 
the stem above the basal bracts, alternate, broadly ovate, sub-acute, sessile, sheathed, 
puberuous; length 125 to 175 in. breadth ‘85 to 1:5 in.  Peduncle slightly longer 
than the stem, puberulous, ebracteate, I-flowered. Flower 2 in. in Чаш.; floral bract 
large, elliptic, cymbiform, sub-acute, ribbed and puberulous, about 2 in. long. Dorsal 
sepal elliptic, tapering to each end, the apex acute, 7-nerved; the lateral pair 
lanceolate, connate under the lip except at the apex. Petals narrowly elliptic, 
sub-acute, as long as the dorsal sepal. Lip longer than the sepals, very large, 
Axx. Ror. Вот. Garb., Carcurra, Voi, ҮШ. 
