CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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and more confluent, the petals and lip deeper in colour ; pallidum, 

 the blackish spots on the upper sepal much reduced, the petals and 

 lip paler. 



First discovered by Thomas Lobb, on the mountains near Moulmein, 

 at 4,000 — 5,000 feet elevation, and introduced by us in 1853 ; and 

 subsequently, in the same region, by the Rev. C. Parish, who informs 

 us that, as far as his experience goes, it is never found below 



Cypripedium villosum. 



4,000 feet elevation; it occurs but sparingly on the Moulmein 

 Mountains, but farther north, near Tongu, it is more abundant, 

 growing in large masses in moss and decaying vegetable matter high 

 up on the branches of trees. The variety Boxalli was introduced 

 by Messrs. Low and Co., in 1877, through the collector whose name 

 it bears, probably from the Tongu district. Although constant as 

 regards the narrower bases of its floral segments and the more 



