sucn 



plant 



a Imvigatum from the Old World, and C. caudatum from the N 



akes it exceedingly difficult to believe they can be essentially' different 



There are still at the very 



A.mer 



half-a-dozen noble Cypripedia to introduce from 



Ihissieriam 



south of the equator. Two of these (from the Quitensian Andes) are well 



of Selenipidium Hartwegii and S. 



figured in Reichenbach's ' Xenia,' under the name 



As nothing so fine has yet reached us from the eastern hemispl 



but hope that some enterp 

 3s already in our stoves. 



■yman will 



long, add them to the 



Descr. a stemless terrestrial plant. There are from four 

 p-pointed leaves, a span to a foot long, 



leathery 



from 



of which 



flomer-stem, which is longer than the leaves, often branched, and 



about half-a-dozen flowers, of which 



3 the hirsut 

 ally bear in 



the sam 



more than two or three are usually in perfec 



Bracts triangular, flattened, more than half the length of the 



y, which is itself covered with soft velvety h 



Sepals less than 



Ion 



ovate-obtuse, nearly uniform, but the 1 

 tracted at top. Petals rather larger t 



o 



one is slightly larger, hooded, and con- 

 lie upper, or about equal to the low^r 



pal 



5 



bite (like the sepals), with streaks or spots of crimson on the inner side, and a 



faint dash of crimson behind 



m 



fi 



Sterile 



Lip formed of a large swollen elliptic bag or slipper 

 opening, white behind, but with a large blotch of deep rich crimson 



} 



fi 



panduriform, acuminate, ha\ 



& 



the upper lip of the stigma triangular, and the lower lip of the same bent backw 



md lobed 



Fig. I. Side-view of stamiiiodium (sterile stamen). 2. Front view of ditto : 



magnified. 



