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voyage, and from this, so far as we know, originated all the plants 

 now in cultivation,* 



0. caricinum. 



Leaves in tufts of 4 — 6, from a creeping rhizome, linear, acute, 

 sedge-like, deep green, 12 — 18 inches long. Scapes as long as the leaves, 



Cypripedium caricinum. 



erect, purplish green, 3 — 6 flowered. Flowers medium-sized ; upper 

 sepal lanceolate, acute, undulate, 1-| inches long, greenish white with 



*Reichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle XVIII. (1882), p. 520, states that this species, 

 which he there describes under the name of Cypripedium reticulatum, for we are persuaded 

 they are one and the same, was found by Gustav Wallis while travelling for M. Linden, and 

 afterwards by Smith, one of Messrs. Low's collectors, before it was sent to us by Davis, but he 

 gives no locality. 



