204 ! CYPRIPEDIUM. 
9. CYPRIPEDIUM HIMALAIcUM Rolfe in Journ. Linn. бос, xxix (1892), 319, 
Height of plant 2 to 4 dm. Stem clothed at the base with three or four loose 
tubular acute sheaths, Leaves usually three, up to 85 cm, long, ovate-elliptie or 
oblong, acute, slightly narrowed to the sheathing base, puberulous; the lower and upper 
ones smaller and narrower. Peduncle pubescent, bearing a solitary flower, Flower reddish- 
ог purplish-red, 6:2 cm. in vertical diam.; floral bract longer than the flower, narrowly 
elliptic, acute or acuminate, slightly concave, many-nerved. Dorsal sepal broadly ovate, 
acute, somewhat concave; lateral pair narrower and slightly longer, connate under the 
lip. Petals spreading, longer than the dorsal sepal, narrowly oblong, subacute. Lip sub- 
globose, many-nerved, pendent, its mouth wide and crenate, Staminode broadly ovate, 
obtuse, slightly cordate at the base. Franch. in Journ. de Bot. viii (1894), 249; Bot. 
Mag. t. 9988; King & Pantling in Ann. К. Bot. Gard. Cale. viii, 342, t. 448; 
Rolfe in Journ, Linn. Soc. xxxvi (1903), 65; С. macranthon Hook. f. Fl. Br. Ind. vi, 
170 (in part and not of Swartz). 0. macranthos Sw., var. himalaicum Krnzl. Orch. Gen. 
and Sp. І. 26. 
On the Chor mountain near Simla, ? Royle (Herb. Saharanpur). Above Jhála in 
the Bághirathi Valley between 12,000 and 13,000 feet, Duthie No. 192 ; Byáns district 
of N. Kumaon in birch forests between 11,000 and 12,000 feet, Duthie No. 5994. 
Flowers during July and August. Found also in Sikkim and Bhutan and beyond the 
British frontier in E. Tibet and China. 
