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CYPRIPEDIUM INSIGNE watticu var. LUCIANI em. ron. 
REMARKABLE CYPRIPEDE, DEDICATED TO Mr. LUCIEN LINDEN 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 17. 
Cypripedium insigne. Foliis radicalibus, distichis, lineari-ligulatis, acutis, elongatis, patulis, viridibus, concolo- 
ribus ; scapo elongato, brevissime denseque tomentoso, teretiusculo, unifloro rarius bifloro; bractea oblonga, glabrata, 
ovario aequilonga ; ovario obtuse trigono, brevissime denseque villoso ; sepalis intus glabris, extus brevissime furfuraceo- 
puberulis, superiore late obovato margine leviter undulato, inferiore paulo breviore anguste ovato obtuso ; petalis patulis, 
oblongo-subspathulatis, obtusis, margine leviter undulatis, intus glabratis, extus tenuiter puberulis, sepalis paulo longio- 
ribus ; labello late galeato, extus glabro ; staminodio subquadrato, apice emarginato, pubescente, ad centrum tuberculato. 
— Pedunculus atropurpureus. Sepalum superius inferne et ad medium laete viride et fusco-maculatum, apice margi- 
neque album ; sepalum inferius pallide viride et inferne purpureo-striatum. Petala flavo-viridia et fusco-venosa. Labellum 
nitidum, flavo-viride et dilute purpureo-fuscum, margine pallidum. Staminodium flavescens. 
Cypripedium insigne WaLLICH mss. in LDL. Collect. Bot., tab. 32 (1821-1824). — Hook. Exot. Fl., tab. 35 
(1823) et in Bot. Mag., tab. 3412 (1835). — KERNER Hort. Semperv., LVIII, tab. 686. — Lopp. Bot. Cab., tab. 1321. 
— Nees Samml. Bot. Gart. Boun., tab. 82 (1832). — LpL. Gen. and Spec. Orchid., 530 (1840). — Maunp Bot., II, 
tab. 56 (1840). — HARTINGER Parad. Vindob., I, tab. 1 (1844). — BLUME Rumphia, IV, tab. 195 (1848). — Grirr. 
Notul., p. 344, Ic. Pl. Asiat., tab. 322. — Moore in Fl. Mag., 1861, tab. 57 (var. Maulei). — Fl. des Serres, XV, 
tab. 1564 (var. Maulei) (1864). — Florist and Pom., 1870, p. 280, cum ic. — Rev. Hortic., 1866, p. 249 et 1878, 
Pp. 130 cum tab. col. (var. Chantini). — BURBIDGE Die Orch., p. 71, tab. 17 (1875). — Du Buyss. L’Orchid., Pp. 279 
(1878). — The Garden, 1882, p. 444, tab. 342. — L’Orchidoph., 1885, p. 36 cum tab. col. (var. Chantini), — 
Witiiams Orch, Alb., IV, tab. 155; V, tab. 232 (var. albo-marginatum); VI, tab. 278 (var. punctatum violaceum); 
X, tab. 445 (var. Mooreanum); Orch. Grow. Man., edit. 7, p. 266, cum ic. — Gard. Chron., ser. 3, Il, p. 560, 
cum ic. (1888), VIII, p. 691, fig. 135 (1890). — Drespois Mon. Cyprip., p. 56 (1888). — VEITCH Man. Orch. Pl., 
part. IV, p. 32 (1889). — Hook. F. Fl. Brit. Ind., VI, p. 172 (1890). — Warts. and BEAN Orchids, p. 168, fig. 44 
(1890). — Pucci Cyprip., p. 109 (1891). — Lindenia, IX, tab. 414 (var. montanum). — Bois Les Orch., p. 263, 
fig. 112 (1893). — L. Linn. Orch. exot., p. 24, fig. 6 et p. 697 (1894). — CH. VAN Wamp. in Journ. des Orchid., V, 
P- 191 (1894). — Orch. Rev., IV, p. 6 (1896). 
Paphiopedilum insigne Pritz. in ENGL. und PRANTL Natiirl. Pflanzenfam., Il, 6, p. 84 (1888) et in ENGL. 
Bot. Fahrb., XIX, p. 41 (1894). — STEIN, Orchideenb., p. 471 (1892). 
Paphiopedium insigne KeRcu. Livr. des Orchid., pp. 33 et 455 (1894). 
Var. Luciani. Folia paulo angustiora. Pedunculus pallide viridis. Flores nitidi, pallide lutei; sepalum superius 
inferne flavo-viride, superne latissime albo-marginatum. 
Cypripedium insigne var. Luciani Em. Rov. in Illustr. Hort., ser. 6, Il, p. 11, tab. 49 (1896). — Journ. 
des Orchid., VI, p. 349. 
ypripedium insigne has been introduced to cultivation for almost a 
century. It was discovered in 1819 by D* Watticu, a celebrated explo- 
Sec) rator of the East Indies, and director of the Calcutta Botanic Garden. 
He sent it to the Liverpool Botanic Garden, where it flowered for the first 
time in 1820. Some time after, GrirrirH, one of the successors of WaALLICH 
found it on the Khasia Hills, at an altitude of about 4000 to 5000 feet. 
Naturally, being so much cultivated and for such a length of time there 
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