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Veitch between 1873 and 1876, and some ten or more years later by Mr. J. 
Charlesworth, the former being localised Muna, and the latter Andes of 
Peru. All the specimens are preserved at Kew, and, so far as we can see, 
are identical with those recently obtained by Forget when collecting for 
Messrs. Sander. The significance of this will presently be seen. 
It was not until 1850 that the record appeared of C. caudatum flowering 
in cultivation, but at a meeting of the Horticultural Society held on March 
19th of that year we find the following (Gard. Chron., 1850, p. 182): ‘‘ Mrs. 
Lawrence exhibited a specimen of the long-tailed Ladies’ Slipper (Cypri- 
pedium caudatum), an extraordinary-looking species, which has just 
flowered at Ealing Park for the first time in England. As far as colour is: 
- concerned the flowers have little to recommend them, being, as near as- 
possible, greenish yellow; their peculiarity consists in the petals being 
extended into two long brown narrow tails, which hang down from each 
side of the blossom, and keep on growing and growing as the flower gets- 
older, till it is difficult at present to say what length they may eventually 
reach. Those in the specimen exhibited were nearly 18 inches long, and 
when the flowers are elevated, as they should be, some two or three feet 
above the foliage, these tails must give them a most remarkable appearance. 
It comes from Peru, and may now be met with in one or two collections in: 
this country. A Large Silver Medal was awarded to it.” 
This plant was now figured by Lindley (Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. pp. 37, 40, 
t. 9, fig. 23), and it is remarked: “ This extraordinary plant was for many 
years known only by a few fragments preserved in Herbaria. At last the 
collector Hartweg met with it, in wet, marshy places near the hamlet of 
Nanegal, in the province of Quito; but he did not send it home. Subse-- 
quently the collectors of Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, and of Mr. Linden fell 
in with it, and to the latter is, we believe, owing its introduction to Europe 
in a living state. Since that time a weaker specimen has blossomed with 
Mr. C. B. Warner. The accompanying plate is a faithful representation of 
the plant as it flowered at Ealing Park, but is far from giving an adequate. 
idea of the natural beauty of the species. The great sheathing bracts, 
which in South America were as large as those of a Heliconia, were mere 
abortions ; and we learn from drawings brought home by Mr. Warscewicz 
that the flowers are very much larger and finer-coloured in its native 
Swamps. The stains on the lip, for instance, are numerous, and of a rich 
warm brown, giving quite another appearance to the flowers. On one of 
Hartweg’s dried specimens are remains of six flowers of this sort, placed at 
the end of a scape more than two feet high.” At page 40 it is added : 
“The following woodcut gives some idea of the appearance of the plant in 
a wild state.” 
Thus Lindley introduced a remarkable confusion into the history of 
