Plate 153. 



CYPKIPEDIUM CONCOLOR. 



Self-coloured Lady^s-sUpper. 



Gen. Char. [Vide sujjra^ Plate 101.) 



Cypripedium concolor ; acaule, foliis (3-5) coriaceis oblongis obtusis arctissime impHcatiK caimli- 



calatis maculatis subtus intense purpurascentibus scapo pubescente bifloro 2-plo longioribus, 

 bractea foliacea acuminata ovario tomentoso vix sequali, sepaliti dubrotundis lubcllo brcviter 

 unguiculato conico-saccato longioribus, stamine sterili subcorJato cuspiduto. 



CvPKiPEDiuM concolor. Bateman in Bot. Mag, j^?. 5513. 



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This new Cypripedium differs entirely from all the species of that extensive gem 

 at present known to us. Its leaves are compa'ctly aiTanged, and being beautifully mot- 

 tled on their upper surface and of a rich reddish-purple below, they contrast agrecabl) 

 with the pale-primrose tint of the' flowers, two of which are borne on a short hairy 

 scape. It is a native of Moulmein, where it was found growing on limestone rocks bj 

 the Eev. C. Parish, who forwarded a careful drawinor to Sir William Hooker. Colonel 



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Benson also found it in the same localities, and dispatched living plants to Kew, where 

 they are now thriving. Other specimens were received at the Clapton Nursery from 

 Mr. Parish, one of which having found its way into Mr. Rucker's collertion, flowered 

 there early in the year 1865, while another blossomed in the collection of Mr. Day. 

 Both were exhibited at the Tuesday meetings of the Horticultural Society at Soutl 

 Kensington, and justly attracted a good deal of attention. The drawing was taker 

 from Mr. Rucker's specimen. 



C. concolor seems to grow and flower as freely, and to be managed with a? 

 difficulty as the other Indian Cypripedia. But it certainly prefers a good hea 

 should be potted in an open mixture of peat and sphagnum. 



Descr. Leaves four or five together, lying nearly flat, oblong, clianuelled, 

 tifully mottled on their upper surface witli light-green on a darker ground, but of 



litih- 

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Idish-purple underneath ; they are from four to six inches long. Flower-srape 

 short, hairv, purple, scarcely raised above the leaves, usually two-flowered. BmcU 

 large and pointed, one at the base of each flower, covered with minute hairs. Flowers 

 fully two inches across, of a uniform pale-yellow, sprinkled over with minute cnmson 



