anth 3, (but apparently only two, the lower being formed of two co- 
hering ) broadly ovate, or rounded ; the lower entirely green, the up- 
per green, but whitish towards the top, the surface with numerous 
brown spots. INNER SEGMENTS two, lateral, spreading, oblong, be- 
coming wider towards the extremity, yellowish green, traversed by 
purple lines, connected by the transverse bars. Lip large, saccate, 
reddish green externally, internally yellow. CoLumn short, having at 
its extremity a large lobe, which is yellow, obversely-heart-shaped,’and 
slightly convex, glandular below, covered with minute reddish hairs 
above: beneath this, towards the base, are two filaments, each bearing 
one anther. AnrTHERs yellow, sessile, two-lobed. Lopes somewhat 
unequal. | 
PopuLar anp GeoerapnicaL Notice. This species of one of the 
most shewy of the genera of orchidaceous plants, is native of a part of 
the world, where few of the genus have hitherto been found: Dr. Wal- 
lich discovered it in Nepaul, whence Cypripedium venustum was sent 
by the same botanist, constituting with Cypripedium purpuratum, 
more recently brought from the Malayan Archipelago, a small tropical 
section of a genus, the majority of species of which he found in the 
temperate and colder parts of the northern hemisphere. Even Britain 
can exhibit one species, Cypripedium calceolus (Lasies' ee) 
Many are found in North America. 
INTRODUCTION; WHERE GRowN; CuLturRe. It was sent by Dr. 
Wallich to the late Mr. Sheppard of Liverpool, about 1822. The 
plant whence our drawing was made flowered in the inexhaustible 
collection of the Messrs. Loddiges. It grows ina pot of very light sandy 
peat, placed on a stage. Like many other plants from Nepaul and 
the more northern parts of India, it by no means requires a high tem- 
perature. \ It may be kept in the conservatory, or even havé the pot 
sunk in the open ground, during the sammer months, without endan- 
gering its existence, or impairing the freeness of its flowering. 
DERIVATION Or THE Names. 
Cyrripepivm, from cuxpic Cyprus, one of the names of Venus; and wodtoy 
nediom,a slipper Station distinguisher, being one of the most remarkable of 
bia: SyNonyMEs. 
CyrrireDIvUM IxstGNE. Wallich Mss. Lindley Collectanea Botanica, t. 32. 
Hooker Exotic Flora, t. 34. Loddiges’ Cabinet, t. 1321. Botanical pectin 
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