62 CYPRIPEDIUM. 



sometimes fully exposed. It flowered for the first time in this 

 country in Mrs. Lawrence's collection at Ealing Park in the spring 

 of 1849. 



The variety Lindenii is an anomalous form, now generally regarded by 

 scientists either as a dimorphism, or an abnormal peloria state of Cypri- 

 pedium caudatum, an hypothesis first broached by the distinguished 

 French botanist, A. Brongniart.* It was constituted a new genus by 

 Lindley, under the name of Uropedhim Lindenii, in which he is followed 

 by Reichenbach, wlio rejects the hypothesis of its being a dimorphism 

 of 0. caudatum, from the fact that the two have never been found 

 growing together, and that the number of observed plants of the 

 Uropedium is too great to admit of its being regarded as an 

 accidental form.t This curious plant was discovered by Linden in 

 1813, at an altitude of 5,000 feet,J growing among the underwood 

 composed chiefly of Weinmannia and Eugenia and the tall ferns 

 scattered over the meadow-like savannahs lying between the Cordillera 

 of Merida and Lake Maracaybo, where also ten years later it was 

 gathered by Wagener.§ It was subsequently collected by Schlim, 

 near Ocafia, at an altitude of 5,000 — 7,000 feet, growing on rocks 

 and even on trees, from which locality it has been sent to Europe 

 by other collectors. It flowered for the first time in Europe in 

 the collection of M. Pescatore, at St. Cloud, near Paris, in 1850. 



The variety Wallisii was discovered in Ecuador, by the collector 

 whose name it bears, in 1872 — 3, and a little later (1876) by 

 Davis, in the valley of Chinchao, in the Huanuco district of Peru. 

 In this locality it occurs on the limestone rocks in full exposure 

 to the sun's rays and where the range of temperature during the 

 twenty-four hours of the day is very considerable. 



* Annales des Sciences naturelles, XIII. (1849), p. 113. This view is immensely strengthened 

 by the recent appearance of a monstrous form of Cypripedium caudatum, which is figured and 

 described in the Gardeners' Chronicle, XXVI. (1886), p. 268—69. This flower had three separate 

 sepals, two long petals, and a lip about half-way between the ordinary saccate form and the 

 long-tailed petals ; the column bore three perfect stamens. Bentham and Hooker refer the 

 Uropedium of Lindley to Selenipedium, with the remark that "S. caudate- in omnibus conformis, 

 nisi labello non calceolato, sed petalis conforme vel basi paullo latiore concavoque," but no 

 mention is made of the third fertile stamen. 



t Nie haben wir erl'ahren dass Selenipedium caudatum and Uropedium Lindenii untereinander 

 wachsen, and die Masse der von letzter Art beobachteten Individuen ist ohnedies zu gross um 

 an eine zufallige Forme zu denken diirfen. — Xen. Orch. I. p. 36. 



% Pescatorea, sub. t. 2. 



§ According to the late M. Roezl, Cypripedium caudatum Lindenii (Uropedium Lindenii) 

 is found in various parts of New Granada, at altitudes of 4,000 — 6, COO feet, growing indifferently 

 upon trees, upon the trunks of dead trees, on rocks, or by the road side, but never in great 

 abundance — Godefroy's Orchidopliile, 1883, p. 570. 



