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CYPEIFEDIUM. 



which, on flowering in the spring of the following year, proved to 

 be the beautiful species described above. Its first discoverer is said 

 to have been a Mr. d'Almeida.* As there is no evidence of G. 

 niveum being a native of Moulmein or its immediate neighbourhood, 

 the plants sent to us by our correspondent were presumably collected 

 in the Langkawi (Lancavi) Islands, situate some miles north of the 

 British settlement of Penang, its nearest known station to Moulmein, 

 and where it has been recently collected by Forstermann for Messrs. 

 Sander and Co., of St. Albans.f In these islands it is found 



Cyprippiliuin niveum. 



"growing on limestone mountains, generally on the western sides 

 where it is not much exposed to the sun; often in the crevices of 

 the sloping rocks, but seldom on the perpendicular escarpments like 

 many other Cypripedes." As regards climatic conditions, the hottest 

 months of the year are April and May, and the coolest months are 

 December and January, when the temperature is often as low as 

 13° C (55° P.) ; the plants are then at rest ; in other respects, 



* Sander's Reichenbachia I. p 76. 



t Idem. 



