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PEMCCCCIVA 
CYPRIPEDIUM PHILIPPINENSE rcup. F. 
THE PHILIPPINE CYPRIPEDIUM. 
CYPRIPEDIUM. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 31. 
Cypripedium philippinense. Folia disticha, linearia, subobtusa, coriacea, viridia. Scapus erectus, pubescens, 
3-5 florus. Bracteae ovatae, acutae. Sepalum posticum ovatum, acutum, lateralia connata postico conformia. Petala 
sepalis quadruplo longiora, linearia, contorta, pendula, prope basin ciliata, undulata, glandulifera. Labellum oblongum, 
parvum. Staminodium subcordatum, emarginatum, » margine put 
Cypripedium philippinense RcHB. F. in Bonplandia (1862), p. 335. — VEITCH Man. Orch., IV, PP. 42, 43, 
cum xyl. — Garden and Forest, 1890, pp. 308, 309, fig. 43. 
Cypripedium laevigatum, BaTeM. in Bot. Mag., t. 5508. — Id. in Gard. Chron., 1865, p. 914, fig. a. — 
Fl. Mag., 1866, t. 298. — Belg. Hort., XVII, p. 102, t. 6. — Fl. des Serres, t. 1760-1. 
Cypripedium Roebelinii Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 1883, ii, p. 684. 
ypripedium philippinense was originally described in 1862 from a dried 
specimen collected in the Philippine Islands, the collector not being 
recorded. Two years afterwards it was introduced by the late Mr. Joun 
Goutp Veircu, who had journeyed to the Philippines with the object of 
obtaining, among other Orchids, Vanda Batemanii. The discovery has thus been 
recorded : — “ He had long searched in vain for this plant, and had almost 
began to despair of ever meeting with it, when one day running his boat 
ashore on the south-west side of the small island of Guimaras, he found the rocks 
by the coast covered with hugh masses of the plant of which he was in search, 
and at the same time he found this Cypripedium growing on its roots. ” Plants 
were sent home, which flowered for the first time in Europe in March 1865, when 
Mr. Bateman, evidently unaware of its previous discovery, described it under the 
name of C. laevigatum, under which name it was long known in gardens. 
In 1883, a plant which had been collected by Rézexin, probably in the 
island of Mindanao, was described by Reicnensacu under the name of C. Roebe- 
lini, but it has proved to be only a form of the above-named species. It has 
since been met with in one or two other Philippine localities, and the later 
introductions have shown some slight variation from the original, though all 
are evidently forms of the same species. 
It belongs to the group with racemose flowers and is perhaps most nearly 
allied to C. praestans Reus. r., from New Guinea. ReIcHENBACH compared it 
with C. glanduliferwm Buiumn, another New Guinea species not yet introduced 
to cultivation. These two New Guinea species have since been considered 
synonymous, but from Brume’s careful analytical drawings, they are evidently 
quite distinct in several essential details. 
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