has iDiiger broadly linear blunt petals, green striped dorsal sepal, a green lip, and very 

 pale foliage. From all the above our plant is further distinguished by its mottled 

 foliage and broad, spathulate, diluted with purple, straight petals. It is one of the 

 easiest of all the Cypripedia to grow. 



Descr. Leaves coriaceous, three to five inches long by one and a half to two inches 

 in breadth, of a deep but bright green, mottled with transverse irregular pale fasciee. 

 Scapes purple, one-flowered in some specimens, and as well as the bract, ovary, and 

 back of sepals and petals, covered with spreading glandular hairs.' Dorsal sepal erect, 

 about as long as the lip, yellowish, with a suffused green centre. Petals spreading, 

 straight, ciliate, spathulate, acute, the narrower part undulate and green, with small 

 purple spots, the dilated parts a dull purple. Lip dull brown-purple, suffused with 

 green, the mouth transverse, with small purple spots on the infiexed margins. Sterile 

 stamens nearly orbicular, notched above and below, the lobes purple, with pale margins. 



Fig» 1. Apex of ovary and column^ — magnified 



