CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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symmetrically striped with green ; lower sepal ovate-lanceolate, much 

 smaller; petals ligulate, deflexed, fringed at both margins with black 

 hairs, white veined with green and much spotted with blackish warts, the 

 spots at the margins being larger than the others ; lip large, somewhat 

 helmet- shaped, brownish purple in front, pale green beneath, the infolded 



Cypripedium superbiens. 



lobes crimsonish and warty. Staminode sub-reniform, with a deep cleft 



on the basal side, and with two incurved cusps on the front side, with a 



small tooth midway between them. 



Cypripedium superbiens, Kchb. in Bonpl. 1855, p. 227. Id. in Allgem. Gartenzeit, 

 1856, p. 323. Id. Xen. Orch. II. p. 9, t. 103. Regel's Gartenfl. XII. (1863), p. 49. 

 Warner's Sel. Orch. II. t. 12. Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, XIX. t. 1996. C. 

 barbatum Veitcbii, Van Houtte's Fl. des Sevres, XIV. (1861), p. 161, t. 1453. 

 C. Veitchianum, lllus. hovt. XII. (1865), t. 429. De Puydt, Les Orch. frontisp. and 

 p. 267. Rev. hort. 1870—71, p. 595, t. 78—79, icon. xyl. C. barbatum superbum, 

 Belg. hort. 1883, p. 97. 



