342 ORCHIDS OF THE SIKKIM-HIMALAYA. 
ventricose, much inflated, not depressed, prominently nerved, the edges of the mouth 
coarsely crenulate. Staminode broadly and bluntly ovate, angled at the base. Franchet 
Cypriped. Asie Occ. et Orient., p. 10 (1894) С. macranthon, var. ventricosa, (not of 
Swartz or Carriere); Hook. fil, Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 170. С, macranthos, Sw., var. tibeticum, 
Ктӛпі іп Orch. Gen. et Spec. I, 26, 
Sikkim, in the Lachen Valley, at an elevation of about 10,000 feet; in flower during 
July; Pantling No. 386. 
The colour of the flowers is brownish, the lip being flushed near its mouth with 
bright purple. 
PLATE 447.— Cypripedium tibeticum, King. Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 front view of 
staminode, 2 profile view of anther, staminode and stigma; both enlarged. 
4. CYPRIPEDIUM HrMALAICUM, Rolfe in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIX, 319. 
Height of plant 8 to 12 in. Stem clothed at the base by three or four unequal, 
lax, tubular, acute sheaths, “5 to 1:75 in. long. Leaves three, unequal, the lowest the 
smallest, scattered, from oblong-elliptic to broadly-elliptic, acute, slightly narrowed to 
the sheathing base, puberulous; length of the larger leaves 2:5 to 95 in., breadth 
1 to 2 in, the lower leaf only 1:5 to 2 in. long and less than *5 in. broad; upper 
part of the stem 3 to 5 in. long, pubescent, bearing at its apex a single flower 
2:5 in. in diam. vertically, and less than 2 in. horizontally; floral bract narrowly- 
elliptic, acute, slightly concave, longer than the flower, many-nerved, 2 in. long. 
Dorsal sepa! broadly ovate, acute, somewhat concave, the lateral pair slightly longer 
but only one-third as wide, connate under the lip. Petals spreading, narrowly oblong, 
sub-acute, longer than the dorsal sepal. Lip pendent, sub.cylindrically ventricose, 
many-nerved; the mouth wide, crenate. Sfaminode broadly ovate, blunt, slightly 
cordate at the base. С. macranthon, Hook. fil Fl. Br. Ind. VI, 170, in part (not 
of Swartz). С. macranthos, Sw., var. himalaicum, Krüntzlin Orch. Gen. et Spec. I, 26. 
.Bhotan, in the Chumbi Valley, at an elevation of about 12,000 feet; in flower 
during July. Lachen Valley, alt. 10,000 to 12,000 feet; Pantling No. 373. 
The colour of the flower is brownish, the lip having a strong tinge of purple. 
Prate 448.—Cypripedium himalaicum, Rolfe. ‘Two plants, of natural size. Fig. 1 front view of 
staminode, 2 кее. view of staminode, anther and stigma; both enlarged. 
Н. P. and С. E. G.—Reg. No. 1720J —340—1^-2-98. үл 
