88 Cypripedium spectabile. 



Whole plant pubescent, from twelve to eighteen inches high. 

 Leaves crowded, embracing each other, and somewhat sheathing the 

 stem, elliptical, very acute at the apex, and attenuated at base. Nerves 

 from live to nine, and having from live to eight very small ones be- 

 tween, rendering the whole aspect of the leaves, both upper and under 

 side, striped, and giving them a plaited appearance. Stem round, stri- 

 ated, and very pubescent, terminated generally by two flowers, furnish- 

 ed each with a lanceolate bract, the margins of which are closely invo- 

 luted. Petals white, pubescent, the exterior ones broad-ovate, and 

 obtuse ; lip exceeding the petals in length, divided posteriorly by a 

 fissure. Nectary deeply striped with reddish-purple ; belly white, and 

 spotted internally with red. Grows in mountainous land of rich soil; 

 flowering in June. 



This plant is one of the most elegant of the singular genus to 

 which it belongs. The specimens from which the drawing was 

 made, flowered this summer in Bartram's gardens at Kingsess, into 

 which it has recently been introduced from the Alleghany mountains. 



The figure represents the plant the size of nature. 



