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There is also a third fertile stamen developed from the column below 

 the stigmatic plate and at its base. 



C. caudatum Lindenii, supra. Cypripedium Lindenii, Van Houtte's Fl. des Serves, 

 XVIII. (1870), p. 155. Selenipedium caudatum Lindenii, Benth. in Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. XVIII. (1881), p. 360. Uropedium Lindenii, Lindl. in Orch. Lind. p. 28, 

 No. 143 (1846). Id. in Bot. Beg. 1846, sub.t. 58. Brongn. in Ann. Sc. Nat. ser. 3, 

 XIII. p. 113. Rchb. Xen. Orch. I. p. 32, t. 15. Belg. hort. 1854, p. 193. Regel's 

 Gartenfl. X. (1861), t. 315, icon. xyl. Linden's Pesc. t. 2. 



var. — Wallisii. 



Flowers somewhat smaller than the type, also paler and more delicate 



in colour ; sepals ivory-Avhite with yelloAV-green veins ; toe of slipper 



mettled with pale rose which passes into yellow-green at the margin 



of the aperture ; infolded lobes pure white with some red-purple spots 



at the outer edge. Staminode pale yellow in the centre, brownish purple 



at the angles. 



C. caudatum "Wallisii, supra. Selenipedium Wallisii, Bchb. Xen. Orch. II. p. 189, 

 t. 191. Cypripedium Wallisii, Hort. 



var. — Warscewiczii. 



Leaves broader, shorter, and of a deeper green ; sepals with a more 

 decided tinge of yellow, and with pale orange-yellow veins ; petals dull 

 rose-purple, except at the base, where the colour is normal ; lip deep 

 yellow-brown in front, yellow-green beneath. 



C. caudatum "Warscewiczii, Godefroy's Orchidophile, 1887, p. 337. C. "Warsce- 

 wiczianum, Rchb. in Bot. Zeit, 1852, p. 692. C. caudatum roseum, Rev. hort. 1867, 

 p. 133. Selenipedium Warscewiczianum, Rchb. in Bonpl. 1854, p. 116. Xen. 

 Orch. I. p. 3 (name only). S. caudatum roseum, Illus. hort. XXXIII. (1886), t. 596. 



As already stated under Cypripedium Boissierianum, the botanical 

 history of that species is identical with G. caudatum up to the date of 

 publication of the latter by Dr. Lindley in his Genera and Species of 

 Orchidaceous Plants in 1840. Two years afterwards G. caudatum was 

 found by Hartweg " in wet marshy places near the hamlet of 

 Nanegal, in the province of Quito, but he did not send it home."* 

 The plant remained unknown to horticulture till its introduction from 

 the Huanuco district of Peru by William Lobb in 1847, and where, 

 thirty years afterwards, it was collected by Davis. In the meantime, 

 in 1862, it had been discovered in the Caupolica district, probably 

 in or near the locality in which it had been found by Hartweg, on 

 the Andes of Ecuador, at 5,000 — 6,000 feet elevation, by Pearce, 

 who sent a few plants to our Chelsea Nursery, which he shipped at 

 Guayaquil. In the Muna locality, 0, caudatum grows chiefly ■ on 

 rocks in decayed vegetable matter, sometimes under brushwood, 



* Lindl. and Faxt. Fl. Gard. I. p. 37. 



