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GENUS LXXIV. CYPEIPEDIUM. 



Grynandria Diandrla. Sex: S^st: 



Beriv. From Kv^ris a name of Venus, and Pedion a slipper, 

 Venus or Ladies' slipper. ^ 



Gen. Chae. Perianth patent : lateral sepals connate or distinct, 

 supeiposed on the lip : petals free, usually narrower : Hp inflated, 

 margin auricled on both sides, bent in-wards: column dwarf: 

 stamens 3, one sterile central dilated inflexed, two fertile lateral : 

 anthers hidden, under the sterile stamen, sub-rotund, 2-celled: pollen 

 pulticeb-graniilar : style somewhat free, terete, terminated by a 

 disk-shaped, stigma.-:— Terrestrial herbs: leaves radical or cauline, 

 coriaceous or plaited : flowers racemose or panicled, showy,. 



(1) C. •VENTJSTUM. (Wall. J 



Idmt. Lindl. gen. and sp. p. 530. 



Engrm. Bot. Mag. t. 2129. — Hooker Exot. flor. t. 35. 



Spec. Chab. Stemless : leaves coriaceous, Hgulate, channelled, 

 spotted, somewhat scabrous : scape pubescent : bract more than 

 twice shorter than the ovary : sterile stamen cuneate : anterior 

 sepal lanceolate, shorter than the lip, dorsal one sub-rotund-ovate, 

 acuminate : petals linear-oblOng, obtuse, bearded : mouth of the 

 oblong lip bent inwards at both sides, and increased by an acute 

 erect lobe: flowers greenish, inside of. the petals purple, lip 

 yellowish, netted with green veins. 



Silhet, flowering in the cold season. 



(2) C. iNsieNE. (Wall.) 

 Ident. Lindl. 1. c. 



Migrm.' Lindl. CoU. Bot. t. 32. — ^Hooker Exot. flor. t. 34. — 

 Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1321. 



Spec. Chae. Stemless : leaves coriaceous, linear-ligulate, weak, 

 channeUed at the base : scape tomentose : bract almost equal to the 

 ovary : sterile stamen obcordate, pubescent : anterior sepal obtuse, 

 almost equalling the lip, dorsal one forked oblong, undulated, 

 emarginate: petals linear-obovate, sub-undulate, bearded at the 

 base, pubescent externally : mouth of the oblong lip bent inwards 

 at both sides, and increased by an erect obtuse lobe : flowers pale 

 green: upper sepal large, broad, white-edged and spotted with 

 brownish-purple : lip deep yellow. 



Khasia hills. Silhet, Flowering in the cold season. 



Note. — I discovered a new species, C. Drurii, fBeddomeJ on the 

 Travancore mountains at 4rT-5000 feet, which flowered in March, 

 1867. The Genus had hitherto beeuj unrepresented in Southern 

 India. 



