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inches long, blackish purple, partially mottled with green and clothed 

 with greyish brown hairs. Bract 1 — lh inches long, acutely keeled, 

 brownish with deeper veins. Flowers 5 inches across vertically ; upper 

 sepal broadly ovate, acute, keeled behind, cream-white, yellowish in the 

 centre, the longitudinal veins red-brown ; lower sepal similar and sub- 

 equal ; petals linear, ribbon-like, depressed, twisted, 4 — 5 inches long, 

 yellow-green with red-brown longitudinal veins, and with 8 — 10 promi- 

 nent, bearded warts on each margin towards the base ; lip calceiform, 

 pale yellow with red-brown anastomosing veins. Staminode sub-quadrate, 

 with a small sinus in the front margin, buff-yellow, the broadly inflexed 

 lateral margins studded with short red-brown bristles. 



Cypripedium glanduliferum, Blume, Humph. IV. p. 56, t. 195, fig. 2 and t. 19S 

 (1848). Rchb. in Walp. Ann. III. p. 602 (1852-53). C. prsestans, Rchb. in 

 Gard. Chron. XXVI. (1886), p. 776. Id. II. s. 3 (1887), p. 814, icon. xyl. 

 Illus. hort. 1887, p. 35. 



This remarkable species was first described and figured by the 



Dutch botauist Blume more than forty years ago from materials 



supplied to him by Zippel, one of the earlier explorers of western 



New Guinea and adjacent region, in Ilumphia, an elaborate and 



beautifully illustrated work on Indian and Malayan plants not 



previously known. Nothing more was seen or heard of it till it 



was re-discovered in 1886 by the Lindenian collectors in Dutch 



Malaya, who sent living plants to Europe towards the end of that 



year ; the consignment, however, was subjected to much delay en 



route, and reached its destination during a severe frost, and in 



consequence, few plants were saved j another consignment arrived 



in better condition in May following. One of the plants of the first 



consignment flowered in June in the horticultural establishment 



(Societe anonyme), at the Pare Leopold, Brussels, and subsequently 



others flowered in British collections,* when the distinct character 



of the species and its great merit as a horticultural plant were 



recognised. The specific name glanduliferum, " gland-bearing/' refers 



to the glandular warts along the margin of the basal portion of 



the petals. 



C Godefroyse. 



Leaves linear-oblong, 3 — 5 inches long, deep green, more or less 

 marbled and spotted with pale green above, densely spotted with 



* After carefully comparing the flowers that expanded in one of these collections with 

 Blame's elaborate and unquestionably accurate description of Oypripediv/m glamdulifervm in 

 Rumphia, we are satisfied that the Cypripedium in cultivation, under the name of C. 



■/mnsft/.iis (lu'hh.), must he referred to the first-named. 



