Plate 200 



CYPKIPEDIUM SCHLIMII. 



ScliUm^s Ladjfs-sUjjper. 



Gen. Char. [Vide sujjra^ Pl\te. 101.) 



Cypeipedium (Selenipidium) Sclilimii ; foliis coriaceis ligulatis acutis subpedalibus pedunculo hir- 

 sute nunc ramo so brevioribus ; bracteis triangulis ancipitibuSj ovario velutmo^ sepalis ovatis 

 obtusis, superiore ovato^ estus sericeo^ inferiore subtequali (vel paulo niajore) apice contracto 

 cucullato^ petalis sepalo summo majoribus^ inferiori subaequalibus ; labello eUiptico-saccato 

 ostio angusto ; staminodio ovato pandurato apiculatOj stigmatis labio superiori triangulo^ in- 

 feriori retuso lobato. Ejc Eeichenhach. 



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Selenipidium Sclilimii. Rchh. in Pesccdorea, /. 34. Xenia OrcU. t. 44. Bot. Mag. t. 6614. 



This pretty New Granada Ci/pripediuni bears the name of its discoverer, M. Schlim, 

 one of M. Linden's most zealous collectors, who found it in " moist places," in the 

 neighbourhood of Ocana, at an elevation of four thousand feet above the sea-level. It 

 first flowered in M. Linden's establishment in 1854. It was afterwards met with near 

 La Cruz by Purdie, and on " dry banks " (!) according to the memorandum in the 

 Hookerian herbarium. Possibly, however, the different season of the year at which 

 the plant was gathered by the respective collectors may explain the seeming discre- 

 pancy. In this country it is still a rare plant, though it is easily giown in a mild 

 temperature, especially if screened from the direct rays of the sun. It blooms in the 

 late summer and autumn monthsJ^l^^^s — when in vigour — producing flower-stems 

 with at least one lateral, a peculiarity that is not represented in the figure, and which 

 does not exist in the dried specimens. The drawing is taken from a plant exhibited at 



South Kensington in August, 1866, by Mr. Bull. 



As all the species of Cijpripedium that have hitherto been found in intra- tropical 

 America have in common the remarkable peculiarity of a three-celled ovary, Professor 



is anxious to raise them— under the name of Selenipidium— mto a sepa- 

 but however loth I may feel to difl'er from my distinguished fiicnd, I 



my way to accepting Selenijyidiim, except as a subgenus, in wliich 



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latter form it may very conveniently stand. The strong family rcsemblan 



