SPECIES CHINENSES. 103 
The following note is taken from the Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
15th May 1015, p. 258 :— 
“ Still rarer is the last Slipper I have this year noted. That 
is only found in cool loose woodland soil, in steep cool banks on 
the shady side of deep and precipitous limestone gorges at 
some 8000 ft. or higher. It lives among herbage and very scanty 
low scrub, evidently asking its shade of cliff, not plant, and seeks 
its model among the far-away Slippers of America. For here 
we come back to the twisted moustache of C. Calceolus; the 
whole plant is similar, though much slighter in build—a dainty 
growth of 6-8 inches, with two or three glossy emerald-green 
leaves to the stem. Usually only one stem comes up from the 
slender crown of roots; never more than two. No stem carries 
more than one flower. These have their cork-screwed petals 
and pointed sepals of a greenish-yellow, lined regularly with 
maroon. The lip is the essential originality of the plant, for it 
is so curiously pulled in below the mouth as to present a perfect 
soda-water-bottle shape, and round its rim is cut into the most 
elegant vandykes that catch the light and shine again. For 
the Slipper is of the waxiest gloss, and in colour of a very bland 
palest cream or butter-yellow, through which dimly show the 
broad bands of maroon with which it is striped on the inside. 
Finally, the inconspicuous strange charm of the plant is justified 
and enhanced by its intense and penetrating perfume of Lily- 
of-the-Valley.””—R. F. 
wa Cystacanthus affinis, W. W.Sm. Sp. nov. 
Species proxima C. yunnanensi, W. W. Sm. a quo primo 
intuitu vix differre videtur ; ramulis, foliis, indumento, calyce 
glanduloso, floris structura fere exacte quadrat ; inflorescentia 
multo reducta plerumque 3-4-flora, calyce majore, corolla 
majore aliter colorata, stylo glabro recedit. 
Suffrutex ad 2 m. altus. Inflorescentia terminalis pauciflora 
in speciminibus nostris 3—4-flora, paucis forsan delapsis. Calyx 
usque ad 2.5 cm. longus. Corolla fere 4 cm. longa extus flavida 
intus livide flava purpureo-striata; tubus medio circ. 2 cm. 
latus; lobi ad 1.5 cm. longi. Stamina 2 antheris ad 9 mm. 
longis. Ovarium circ. 5 mm. longum stylo 2 cm. paulo super- 
ante glabro. Fructus deest. Cetera cum specie sequenti 
quadrant. 
“Shrub of 6 ft. Flowers exterior yellowish-grey, interior 
dull livid yellow, veined purple maroon. Open arid stony 
situations in the Fengkow Valley, Yunnan. Lat. 27° 40’ N. 
Alt. 8000 ft. June 1914.’ G. Forrest. No. 12,493. 
Cc 
