JuLy, 1917-] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 147 
ies UROPEDIUM LINDENII. es 
HEN summarising the history of Cypripedium caudatum (pp. 130-132), 
we omitted to mention the remarkable Uropedium Lindenii—now 
generally regarded as a variety or peloriate state of C. caudatum—on the 
ground that it deserved a chapter to itself. 
Uropedium Lindenii was described by Lindley in 1846 (Orch. Linden, 
p. 28), on materials collected three years previously by Linden, below Lake 
Maracaybo, on the Cordillera of Merida. The author remarked that it had 
all the characters of Cypripedium except that the lip was flat and extended 
into a long narrow tail, much like the petals in shape. The habit was said 
to be exactly that of C. insigne. It was subsequently collected by 
Schlim, near Ocana, at an altitude of 1500 metres, growing on rocks and 
trees; and presumably living plants were sent home, for in 1850 Lindley 
remarked: “‘ We learn from Mons. Pescatore that it has now produced two 
flowers in his great collection at the Chateau of St. Cloud, near Paris. 
' The sepals are white streaked with green, and more than 31 inches long ; 
the petals and lip full 21 inches long, very velvety at the base, white 
streaked with green; the tails have the colour of wine lees.” He also 
called it the most remarkable terrestrial Orchid yet known (Paxt. Fl. Gard., 
i, p. 72). 
One of the flowers was sent b 
botanist, M. Ad. Brongniart, who published an elaborate paper (Ann. Se. 
that the plant had three fertile 
y M. Pescatore to the distinguished French 
Nat., ser. 2, xiii. pp. 113-118, t. 2), showing 
and suggesting that it was an abnormal, peloriate state of 
Stamens, 
This hypothesis, however, was rejected. by 
Cypripedium caudatum. 
Reichenbach, who afterwards figured the plant (Xen. Orch., i. p. 32, ti °T5), 
on the ground that the two had never been found together, and that the 
number of observed plants of the Uropedium was too great to admit of its 
being regarded as an accidental form. 
In 1860 a fine figure and very full account of the plant appeared in 
Pescatovea (t. 2), and here the locality in which Linden discovered it is said 
to have been on the meadow-like savannahs lying between the Cordillera of 
Merida and Lake Maracaybo, growing among underwood composed chiefly 
of Weinmannia, Eugenia, and climbing ferns (Gleichenia), at an altitude of 
about 5000 feet—a locality, by the way, where Wagener subsequently 
Collected it. The altitude is important, because Lindley had originally 
recorded it as 8500 feet (on what authority is not clear, because there is no 
collector’s ticket with his original specimen), and the error is repeated in 
Several of the early accounts. 
