CYPRIPEDIUM PARISHIL. 
[PLaTE 86. ] 
Native of Moulmein. — 
Epiphytal. Stem short, erect, leafy. Leaves coriaceous, loriform, eight to ten 
inches long, and two inches broad, channelled and equitant at the base, obliquely 
obtuse and bifid at the apex, distichous, deep full green. Scape stout, erect, densely 
hairy, green, two feet long or upwards, five to six-flowered, each flower issuing from 
a semi-amplexicaul boat-shaped green, ovate, acute, glabrous bract, ciliated at the tip, 
the lower ones larger. Flowers singular in their conformation, not brilliant in colour, 
but pleasing in character, and long enduring; dorsal sepal one and a half inch 
- long, erect, ovate-oblong acute, somewhat keeled, the sides revolute near the base, 
giving it the appearance of being clawed, the tip somewhat recurved, greenish straw- 
colour | tinged with purple; lateral sepals connate, greener, the back marked with 
two distinct green keels meeting at the point; petals narrowly strap-shaped, widest — 
below, and thence tapering to the point, four inches long, whitish green at the base, 
with scattered black spots, and a purple edge, which widens upwards till about half 
the length, when they become wholly of a glossy purple on both sides, twisted, the 
margin having here and there a black hairy wart; lip one and a half inch long, 
the basal half narrowed from the infolding of the edges, deeply stained outside 
with purple, spotted with purple within, and furnished with purple hairs directed 
ele the pouch oblong, blunt, with an expanded mouth, and two erect ear- 
€ angles projectmg upwards and outwards, pale green, freely stained with purple. 
minode large, depressed, obovate, bifid, with a blunt spur near the base, green, 
whitish at the edge, hairy. : 
Ch Cypripeptum Parrsnt1, Reichenbach fil., in Flora, 1869, 322; Jd. in Gardeners 
ila 1869, 814, with a woodcut; Hooker fil., Botanical Magazine, t. 5791; — 
ams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed., 156. 
new ‘ (ie Cypripedium is now an extensive family of Orchids in which many 
__-pectés and varieties are constantly appearing, some of them importations, but 
Men tem the results of the well-applied skill of the hybridiser, through whose 
om some really good and interesting additions to the older kinds have been, — 
te made. It forms a most useful group of Orchids, most of them being of 
Some _ and the flowers lasting a long time if due care is taken of a 
flowers, hid growers discard them because of the stiff and formal outlines of t = 
introduce - character certainly does not apply to the Moulmein species we now 
: “0 our readers, as it is of a singularly graceful appearance, as may be ce 
to . sketch. ‘The illustration was taken from a fine spike that was forwardec 
—. Esq., Gilmore Place, Edinburgh, a gentleman who has a very good 
; f ® one of those amateurs who are fond of, and takes a personal 
