CYPRIPE’ DIUM INSIG’ ee 
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ENDOGEN2, Restor voss ait 
( Natural division 
to which ‘ 
1 this p!ant belongs, y 
NATURAL ORDER, ORCHIDACE, 
GYNANDROSE, Sagan divisions GYNANDEIA, 
oF to which ioe | DIANDRIA, 
LINDLEY. | this Plant belongs. OF LINNEUS. 
No. 56. 
GENUS. Cyrnirspivm. ss alan Perigonii patente foliola exteriora 
ennremn 
forme, quinquinerve; interiora angustiora. Lasencem maximum inflatum eal. 
ceiforme. 5 ye — A on Pees, apice trifida, lobis jateralibus. subi enthe: 
riferis, i eo-dilatato. ANTHER# loculis retis subbi- 
valves. Potten pace gramaosen, Srrema deltoideum, sirken faciem in- 
fra antheras oceupans. Caprsuza unilocularis, mete parietalibus tribus, 
Semina plurima, stokiiocmias Brewed Genera Plantarum, p. 220. 
SPECIES. Cyprirepium 1nsicnNE. -WaLLicn. pcan foliis pee 
cs bara seuyo se ont dimidio brevioribus sperianthii incinia superiore irate 
roinatal » infe 
riore labello venoso basi inflexo paulo longiore. Linpiry. Collectanea Bot- 
anica : 
CHARACTER OF THE GeNus, CypripeDIuM. The external folioles 
of the spreading perigone (perianth of some writers) lateral, one-ner- 
ved, hid by the Jabellum (or lip), free or united, the upper uniform, 5- 
nerved: internal folioles narrower. Lup large, inflated, slipper-shaped 
Cotumn short, nodding, 3-cleft at the apex, the lateral lobes antheri- 
ferous below, the central one sterile, dilated and petal-like. ANTHERS 
with the cells distinct, nearly two-valved. Pow.en pultaceously 
granular. Stiema deltoid, occupying the face of the column below the 
anthers. CaPsuLE one-celled with 3 parietal placente. Sxreps nu- 
merous, resembling grains of dust. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE Species, CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE. Fcc 
ceous, stemless, Leaves radical, few, equitant at the base, distichous, 
cartilaginous, ligulate, one half shorter than the flower stem or 
scape, keeled on the under surface, glabrous, of a yellowish green 
colour. Scare round, pilose, nearly a foot long, curved down- 
wards at the upper part, where it is furnished with an ovately-oblong, 
green, smooth, compressed spatha. FLower terminal, solitary, of con- 
siderable size, from 3 to 4 inches wide. Outer segments of the peri- 
