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CYPRIPEDIUM usiene. 
Large-flowered Lady’ s-slipper. 
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GYNANDRIA DIANDRIA.—Nar. Orv. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum ventricosum, inflatum (nune saccatum). Columna 
postice terminata lobo petaloideo (stamine sterili) antheras distinguente. 
Petala duo antica, sepe connata.—Br. in Hort. Kew. 
Cypripedium insigne ; acaule, foliis cartilagineis ligulatis scapo piloso 
dimidio brevioribus, perianthii lacinia superiore fornicata 
ta, lateribus obovatis subundulatis obtusis extus pubescentibus, infe- 
riore labello venoso basi inflexo paulo longiore.—Lindl. 
C. insigne, Watuicn, MSS.—Linp.ey, Coll. Bot. t. $2. 
Stem none. Leaves few, distichous, sheathing and equitant at the base, the 
rest linear, carinated, quite glabrous, of an uniform yellow-green hue, 
paler at the base. 
Scape cylindrical, pubescent, purplish, curved at the extremity, Bractea or 
spatha ovate, keeled and compressed, marked with lines, glabrous, green, 
purple at the base. 
Flower very large, showy, solitary, drooping, nearly 3 inches in length. The 
2 outer segments of the perianth or corolla pale green; the upper one 
broadly ovate, concave, waved at the margin, white at the extremnty, and 
emarginate, marked with longitudinal lines, and spotted with purple, 
having at the base a few purplish hairs, horizontal in its direction, after- 
wards erect, lower one pendent, smaller than the upper one, composed 
of 2 segments, united at their margins, ovate, incurved at the margin 
near the extremity, indistinctly lined and marked with a few small 
purplish spots near the base. The two inner and lateral segments are li- 
with and marked with lines of brown, scantily dotted near the base, 
where there are a few purple hairs, externally pubescent. fey Pid 
roundish, ovate, pendent, glabrous, much resembling = of eae 
