Plate 101. 



CYPEIPEDIUM L^VIGATUM. 



Glossy-leaved Lady s-slip'per . 



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Gen. Char. Periaiithium patens. Sepala lateralia connata ant distincta^ labello supposita. 

 Petala libera^ saepius angustiora. Labellum inflatum, margine utrinque auriculato inflexo. 

 Columna nana. Stamina 3^ quornm unum sterile^ centrale, dilatatum^ inflexum, et 2 fertilia late- 

 ralia, AnthercB sub staniine sterili latentes^ subrotundae^ biloculares, PoZ7en pulticeo-granulosum. 

 Stylus snbliber^ teres^ stigmate disciformi termlnatus. {Capsiila nnilocularis.) — Herbee terresdes 



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utruisqiie orhis, ah (Bqitatore fere ad circuhim arctlcum vigentes. Folia radicalia aid caullua. Flores 

 solitarii raceTnosi v. yanicnlatiy sj'^eciosL LindL 



Cypripedium Icevigatiim ; foliis disticliis ensifonnibus coriaceis ubtusiusculis laevigntia immaculntis^ 



scapo pubescente stricto 3-5-floro brevioribus^ bracteis ovatis acutia ovario 2-plo breviorlbus, 

 sepalis lateralibus connatis dorsali ovato acuto conformibus, pctalis scpalis 4-plo longioribns 

 linearibna snrsum in margine setoso-glanduligeria contortis acnminatissimis^ labello anirnsto 

 oblongo acutiusculo, staminodio cordiformi emarginato. Bale man, 



Cypripedium laevigatum. Batema/n, mss. ' Bot. Mag. t 5508. 



This fine new Cypripedium was discovered by Mr. J. G. Veitch in the Pliilippine 

 Islands, and by him sent to his father's establishment at Chelsea, where it bloomed for 

 the first time in March, 1865. It is most nearly related to C. Sfonei, the only other spe- 

 cies known to have glossy leaves, but differs from it in the form and colour of its lip, 

 which is small and of a dirty yellow, while that of C. Stonei is large, with a pink front 

 on a white ground; the petals too of C. Stonei are not twisted, and only twice the 

 length of the sepals, while in C. Icevigatum they are much twisted, and at least four 

 times the length of the sepals. Again, in C. Stoiiei the dorsal sepal is striped on tlie 

 outside with crimson, but is white within, whereas in C. Icevigatum the crimson stripes 

 are all on the inside. 



Mr. Veitch found C. Icevigatum established upon the roots of the well-known 

 Vanda Batemanni^ to obtain which was one main object of his voyage, though he sought 

 for it long in vain, and had almost begun to despair of ever meeting with it, when run- 

 ning his boat one day ashore in the bay of a small island, he was delighted and 

 astonished to find the rocks by the coast covered with huge masses of the plant of 



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which he was in quest. As the Vanda affects a warm situation, i\ie Cypripedium %hin\\i\ 





