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long tails, and the staminode trilobed-hastate. A field note states — ‘ This 
singular and magnificent plant grows on the ground in the little woods of the 
Savannah, in that elevated part of the Savannah which overlooks the vast forests 
at the bottom of the lake of Maracaybo, and situated on the territory of the 
Indians of Chiguara, at the height of 8500 feet. ” 
Linp.ey observes that the habit of the plant is exactly that of Cypripedium 
imsigne, and that the lip is of exactly the same form as the petals. There is no 
mention of any resemblance to the Cypripedium caudatum, but it must be remem- 
bered that LinpLey then only knew this by a single dried flower. 
In March 1850 Cypripedium caudatum flowered for the first time in this 
country, in the collection of Mrs Lawrence, F. H. S., at Ealing Park, and was 
awarded a large Silver Medal by the Horticultural Society, before whom it was 
exhibited on the 18" of that month. A coloured plate was given in Paxron’s 
Flower Garden, immediately afterwards, but unfortunately the vegetative organs 
and bracts of C. Hartwegi were incorporated into the description, and the same 
unfortunate blunder is repeated in the woodcut given on page 40 of the work. 
The plant here mentioned collected by Harrwec must therefore be excluded. 
As to its introduction in a living state we are told that “ subsequently the 
collectors of Mssrs Verrcu, of Exeter (now of Chelsea), and of M. Linpen, fell in 
with it, and to the latter is, we believe, owing its introduction in a living state. ” 
The Uropedium Linden was also introduced by M. Linpen, and appears to 
have first flowered in the collection of M. Pescatorsg, of St-Cloud, near Paris, in 
May 1849, and a most interesting paper on the same appeared in February 1850, 
from the pen of M. Broneniart (cited above), in which the view was advanced 
that the plant was probably a monstrous state of Cypripedium caudatum, a suppo- 
sition rejected by Prof. Reicnensacn, but now amply verified notwithstanding. 
The variety Wallisii was discovered in Ecuador by Gustav Wa tis in 
1872-1873, and a little later by Davis in the valley of Chinchao, in the Huanuco 
district of Peru. It is characterised by its somewhat smaller and paler flowers, 
and the pure white infolded side lobes of the lip. 
The plant here figured is an abnormal state of the last-named, and bears 
the same relation to it that Uvopedium Lindenii bears to the typical form. It 
appeared with Mssrs Linpen, L’Horticu.ture INTERNATIONALE, Parc Leopold, 
Brussels, during June last, and it is interesting to note that a plant of the 
variety Wallisiz, in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, produced a flower 
with a curiously flattened lip, about the same time. Its occurence is certainly 
interesting. 
It may perhaps be advisable to refer to the generic position of the plant 
in more detail, as so many people find a difficulty in accepting the theory of its 
being an abnormal state of something else. Much has been made of the fact that 
the plant grows in abundance in a locality where Selenipedium caudatum, that is 
(To be continued on p. 24.) 
