CYPRIPEDIUM PATRRIEANUM. 
[PuatE 70. | | 
‘Native of Assam. 
Epiphytal. Acaulescent. Leaves green, radical, leathery in texture, distichous, 
loriform, obliquely apiculate, the base carinate and equitant.  Scapes solitary in 
the axils, longer than the leaves, green, pilose, terminating in a short sheathing 
woolly bract from which the blossom emerges. owers medium-sized, elegantly 
venose ; dorsal sepal large, oblong-cordiform, ciliated, concave, the apex recurved, blunt, 
greenish white flushed with carmine and beautifully veined with bright crimson- 
purple; lateral connate sepals united into one small ovate obtuse se l, whieh is 
whitish with streaks of green and crimson-] urple; petals oblong-lanceolate, deflexed 
and recurved “like the horn of a buffalo,” hairy at the base, white flushed with 
green, and having longitudinal stripes and a marginal band of crimson-purple, the 
edge being undulated and ciliated; lip prominent, brownish-green with faint 
purple reticulations.  Staminode orbicular-lunate, greenish white tinted with purple, 
downy, with a downy proboscis between the horns of the crescent. 
CYPRIPEDIUM FarrrinaNuM, Lindley, Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1857, 740; Hooker, 
Botanical Magazine, t. 5024; Van Houtte, Flore des Serres, t. 1244; Bateman, 
Second Century of Orchidaceous plants, t. 140; Reichenbach fil., Xenia Orchidacea, 
t. 133; Willams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed. 153. 
The Cypripediums form a very large genus of Orchids, which is also one of 
the most useful for decorating our Orchid-houses or plant stoves, as well as for 
exhibition purposes. Nearly all the species continue long in flower and are of easy 
cultivation. The plant before us was first flowered by A. Fairrie, Esq., of Aigburth, 
Liverpool, in 1857, and was exhibited in London by him and named by Dr. 
Lindley in his honour. Since that time it has become exceedingly rare, and is now 
to be met with in but very few collections. As far as we are aware it has only 
been once imported, a circumstance much to be regretted, as it is one of 4 
most distinct and lovely of the whole family. Our drawing was made by = P. 
Stroobant from a well-grown plant in the fine collection of Dr. Boddaert, of Ghent, 
Belgium, who has one of the best collections of Orchids in that country. — “ 
Cypripedium Fairrieanum is an_ evergreen dwarf-growing species, with = 
green leaves about three inches long. The flowers are produced singly on upns at 
stalks. It blooms during the autumn months and continues in perfection for some 
_ considerable time, Ss save 
) This Cypripedium is not so free in its growth as many others, — - 98 
Seen it very fine in years gone by, and we are of opinion that if — “ gue 
could only be obtained, cultivators would be able to succeed with it as well as 
