CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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Introduced from the Philippine Islands in 1882 by Messrs. Low 

 and Co., of Clapton ; it was also gathered by our own collector 

 early in the following year on the small islets off the north-east 

 coast of Mindanao. It is one of the handsomest of the group to 

 which it belongs, being very near Cypripedium superbiens, from 

 which it is easily distinguished by its shorter differently coloured 

 upper sepal ; by the denser and more numerous marginal hairs of 

 the petals, which suggested the specific name; by the spotting and 

 deeper colour of the petals, which are also broader and more 

 reflexed at the apex ; and by the somewhat smaller lip of a 

 deeper and duller colour, and with a shorter claw. It flowers in 

 April and May. 



Cypripedium concolor. 



C. concolor. 



Leaves oval-oblong, 3 — 5 inches long, mottled above with greyish green 

 on a deep green ground, more or less spotted beneath with deep purplish 

 crimson. Scapes short, one- but not infrequently two-flowered, with a 

 small boat-shaped closely-appressed bract at the base of the ovary. 

 Flowers 2 — 3 inches across, pale yellow sprinkled with minute purple 

 clots that are often aggregated towards the base of the sepals and petals, 

 and on the infolded lobes of the lip; upper sepal sub-orbicular, keeled 



