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blackish median line and some blackish warts towards the base, and 



also studded with numerous blackish hairs on the inferior side of the 



median line ; lip helmet- shaped, bright yellow spotted with red-purple 



on the inside, the infolded lobes not meeting at their edges. Staminode 



sub-quadrate with a shallow sinus in the front margin, in the centre of 



which is a minute protuberance. 



Oypripedium Drurii, Beddome, Icon. pi. ind. or. p. 23 t. 112 (1874). Echb. 

 Xen. Orch. II. p. 223. Id. in Gard. Chron. VI. (1876). p. 68. Illus. hort. 

 1877, t. 265. Fl. Mag. n. s. t. 425. 



This very distinct species was discovered in 1865 on the Travan- 



core Hills, in the extreme south of India, at an elevation of 5,000 — 



6,000 feet, by Colonel Drury, after whom it is named. Colonel 



Beddome subsequently found it " very abundant on the top of the 



Calcad Hills (Travancore) in flower in January " ; it is, therefore, in 



a geographical sense one of the most isolated of all the coriaceous 



Cypripedes, no other species being known to occur within many 



hundred miles of this station. It was introduced to European 



gardens by the last-named officer, who sent plants to the Koyal 



Gardens at Kew about the year 1875 ; it usually flowers in the 



orchid-houses of this country in March and April, but occasionally 



earlier. The black median bands on the sepals and petals form a 



striking characteristic of this interesting species. 



O. Elliottianum. 



''Leaves bright green, 12 — 15 inches long and 1| — 2 inches broad. 

 Scapes stout, purple dotted, over 1 foot in height, 2 — 5 flowered. 

 Bracts spathaceous, 1 — 1| inches long, whitish with narrow chocolate 

 lines. Upper sepal 1|- inch wide and 2| inches long, pointed, ivory- 

 white, with fifteen dark crimson lines of various lengths ; lower sepal 

 similar but smaller; lip nearly like that of Oypripedium Stonei in 

 colour and shape, ivory-white, delicately veined and tinted with rose ; 

 petals white, spotted on the basilar portion with crimson blotches, 

 which run into three or four narrow lines to the points ; undulate 

 and ciliate as in C. Sanderianum. Staminode narrow and beak-like, as 

 in C. Rothschilclianum." — James O'Brien, in Gard. Chron. IV. s. 3 

 (1888), p. 501, 



Cypripedium Elliottianum, James O'Brien, loc. cit. Echb. in Gard. Chron. IV. 

 s. 3 (1888), p. 532. 



This is a new Cypripede brought under notice by Messrs. 

 Sander and Co., of St. Albans, while these pages are passing 

 through the press. It is said to be a native of the Philippine 

 Islands, and is "dedicated to Mr. Elliott, of the firm of Messrs. 

 Young and Elliott, of New York." 



