: CYPRIPEDIUM STONEI. 
[PuaTE 8. | 
Native of Borneo. 
Terrestrial. Stem wanting, the short erect crowns each furnished with numerous 
radical evergreen leaves, and emitting stout fleshy roots. Leaves distichous (two- 
ranked), a foot or more in length, leathery or somewhat fleshy, oblong, obtuse, with 
a short recurved mucro, dark green above, of a paler green beneath. Scape dark 
purple, issuing from the centre of the leaves and furnished with a sheathing bract 
at its base, about two feet in height, three to four-flowered, the pedicels subtended 
by green lanceolate acuminate bracts. lowers large, richly-coloured, measuring when 
spread out four inches in the direction of the sepals, and nine to ten inches in 
that of the petals; dorsal sepal broadly cordate, acuminate, nearly two inches broad, 
white, marked in front with a bold central, and on each side with two or three 
curved lateral stripes of deep purple-brown, keeled behind, and there stained with 
purple-brown ; lateral sepals (united) ovate-acuminate, with a central and on each 
side three lateral stripes extending nearly to the base, greenish-white, edged with 
purple-brown ; petals set at a right angle to the sepals, one-fourth of an inch broad, 
five inches long, tapering gradually to the apex, decurved, greenish-white with dark 
purple-brown veins and spots, becoming wholly purple at the tip, and having near 
the base a purple margin, and a few scattered marginal purple hairs; lip large, 
prominent, calceoliform, the basal portion ban age from the introflexion of the 
margin, greenish, the apex large, pouch-shaped, like the front of a shoe or slipper, 
dull purplish-red reticulately veined with darker purple. Column white, with a rin 
of yellow hairs at the base, two-branched, the lower branch three-lobed, the late 
lobes bearing each a small orbicular sessile yellow anther, the terminal lobe forming 
a large white ovate fleshy disk (abortive third stamen) the upper or stigmatic 
branch cordate-obovate, convex, whitish, tinged with purple, and fringed at the back 
and sides with yellow hairs. 
Cypripepium Stone1, Low; Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5349; Van Houtte, 
Flore des Serres, xvii., t. 1792-3; Lemaire, IMustration Horticole, ix., p. 107; x. t. 355 ; 
Bateman, 2nd Century of Orchidaceous Plants, t. 141; Jennings, Orchids, t. 12. 
This magnificent plant is one of the most beautiful species of the genus 
Cypripedium. Several varieties of it are known, and though they are all good and 
well worth growing, that which we have selected for illustration is the best and 
darkest that has come under our notice. The plant from which our figure was 
taken, bloomed in the Victoria Nursery, and had five flower-spikes, two of which 
have been in bloom for the past six weeks, and are now as fresh as ever. 
Cypripedium Stonei was first flowered by Mr. Stone, gardener to John Day, Esq., 
of High Cross, Tottenham, after whom it has been named. It was for a long 
period a very rare species, and, indeed now, though small plants may be purchased 
for a moderate sum, yet large specimens are scarce and valuable. It makes a fine’ 
