CYPRIPEDIUM. 



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0. Schlimii. 



Leaves ligulate, acute, 9 — 12 inches long, bright grass-green above. 

 Scapes as long as or longer than the leaves, sometimes branched, pale 

 greenish purple, pubescent, few-flowered. Bracts triangular-lanceolate, 

 acuminate, much compressed, 1 — 2 inches long. Flowers H — 2 inches 

 across, with all the segments covered with a soft velvety down ; 

 upper sepal oval-oblong, acute, keeled behind, greenish white stained 

 with pale rose-pink ; lower sepal broader, concave, whitish with pale 

 green veins ; petals oval-oblong, white spotted and stained with rose- 

 purple, chiefly at the base ; lip inflated, broadly ovoid in form, 

 contracted at the aperture, rose-carmine, whitish beneath, the infolded 

 lobes streaked alternately with white and rose-carmine. Staminode rhom- 

 boid with a minute median keel, bright yellow with a brownish stain 

 in front. 



Cypripedium Schlimii, Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5614 (1866). Van Houtte's Fl. des 



Serves, t. 1917 (1869-70). De Puydt, Les. Orch. t. 12. Selenipedium Schlimii, Rchb. 



in Bonpl. 1854, p. 277. Id. Xen. Orch. I. p. 125, t. 44. Linden's Pesc. t. 34. 



Cypripedium Schlimii albiflorum. 



var.— albiflorum. 



Plant of somewhat more vigorous growth. Flowers white, except at 

 the base of the petals, where there is usually a pale rose-pink stain, and 

 the infolded lobes of the lip, which are rose-pink; the staminode bright 

 yellow, as in the type. 



C. Schlimii albiflorum, Linden in Illus. hort. 1874, t. 183, C. Schlimii album, 

 Jlort. 



