CYPEIPEDIUM. 



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in having tlie lip apparently grown to the face of the column and thus 

 connate ; sepals connivent ; petals fixed under the dorsal sepal ; lip 

 spurred, quadri-partite ; column short, anther horizontal and lying on its 

 back, with elongated cells. 



Culture. — Same as Habenaria. 



C. ELEGANS, Bchh. f. — A charming plant producing lanceolate, acute, light 

 green leaves, about 2^ inches long. The scape bears from 6 to 10 or more flowers ; 

 sepals and petals small, of a beautiful rose colour ; lip with a trifid front lobe 

 which is rose suffused with rosy-purple. — Madagascar. 



C. GRANDIFLORA, Bidley.— 

 " Sepals oblong-lanceolate, green, 

 red-spotted ; petals narrower, 

 white, lip broadly four-lobed. 

 There are two varieties of this 

 species, one called purj3urea, which 

 has a purple lip spotted at the 

 base, and is scentless ; the other 

 is albata, the lip of which is white, 

 purple at the base, and is fra- 

 grant." — Ancanfa, Madagascar. 



Fio.—Cfard. Mag., 1893, p. 138 ; 

 Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiii. 

 p. 197, f. 27. 



C. LOWIANA, Bchh. /.—Not 

 unlike the preceding in habit, but 

 the leaves are somewhat larger and 

 acuminate. The free limb of the 

 lip in this species has the appear- 

 ance of being quadri-fld, through the bifurcation of the mid-lobe; petals and 

 sepals greenish- white ; lip purplish-rose. — Madagascar. 



CYPRIPEDITJM, Linnaeus. 

 (_Tril)e Cypripedieae.) 

 This remarkably distinct genus consists partly of terrestrial and 

 partly of epiphytal species, the tropical kinds included in this chapter 

 mostly belonging to the latter series. The various hardy and half-hardy 

 kinds representing the terrestrial group produce erect leafy deciduous 

 stems with the leaves stongly ribbed ; while the more numerous race of 

 tropical species have mostly very short stems, bearing leathery leaves, 

 from among which the one or more flowered scapes spring up, all these 

 having one-celled ovaries ^yith parietal placentae. There is a third 

 group of tropical kinds (all American) which have leathery leaves, tall 

 branching flower stems, and three-celled ovaries, with axile placentation. 



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CTNOECHIS GBANDIFLOBA. 



