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‘102 DIAGNOSES SPECIERUM NOVARUM. 
aureum petalis paulo brevius mire verrucosum. Ovarium sparse 
albido-furfuraceum. 
‘A most curious little plant, running about with single 
shoots and forming wide colonies in sunny glades and mossy 
woodland soil of the forest zone in the enormous gorges behind 
Siku, at about 8000 ft., and often in company with C. luteum. 
It has a noxious aromatic scent, and the ample lip is of shining 
waxy gold warted and deformed with knobs and whelks and 
bubuckles like Resdolph. Kansu, Western China.’”’ Farrer and 
Purdom. No. . 
The eiicna note is taken from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
15th May 1915, p. 258 :— 
“Among Proud Margarets’ * very roots, too, sometimes 
wanders a strange and humble little cousin—a ramifying running 
Cypripedium, perking up a 3-inch stem here and there with a 
pair of leaves, and then a small green-segmented half-awake 
flower with a lip of brilliant waxy orange, warty and whelked 
and bubuckled, and with an unpleasing aromatic scent that 
suggests (like the whole flower) the corruptness of a Cata- 
setum.’’—R. F. : 
Cypripedilum Farreri, W. W. Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species affinis C. fasciolato, Franch. et C. yunnanensi, 
Franch.; priore multo minor, ab altero sepalis petalisque 
viridi-tateis ovario furfuraceo-puberulo inter alia ex descriptione 
differt. 
Planta circ. 20 cm. alta. Folia plerumque duo, medio vel 
infra medium inserta, 5-7 cm. longa, 2.5—3 cm. lata, ovato- 
lanceolata, acuta vix acuminata, siccitate tenuiter membranacea, 
utrinque glabra, margine minute ciliolata; bractea 3-4 cm. 
longa, lanceolata vel ovato-lanceolata. Sepala et petala viridi- 
lutea purpureo-striata atque -maculata; sepalum superius circ. 
3 cm. longum, circ. 1.2 cm. latum ovatum sensim acuminatum ; 
synsepalum paululo longius ovato-lanceolatum dapice bicuspi- 
datum.  Petala lateralia lineari-lanceolata circ. 4 cm. longa, 
erga basim circ. 6 mm. lata longiuscule acuminata apicem versus 
torta. Labellum petalis brevius, in sicco fere globosum 2.5-3 cm. 
diametro, ore parvo praeditum. Ovarium circ. 1.5 cm. longum 
dense albido-furfuraceum. 
“Rare in the deep limestone gorges above Siku, under the 
shadier wall of the cliffs. June. Petals, etc., greeny-yellow, 
lined maroon; lip of waxy cream, lined internally, pulled into 
a series of vandykes at the mouth and very glossy and fragrant. 
Kansu, West China.’’ Farrer and Purdom. No. 155. 
* Cypripedilum luteum, Franch. 
