CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS. 



LARGE YELLOW LADY'S-SLIPPER. 



Gynandria Diandria, Linn. Orchidese, Juss. 



GENERIC CHARACTER. 



Lip ventricose, inflated, saccate. Petals 4, the under one bifid. The column termi- 

 nating behind in a petaloid lobe. 



SPECIFIC CHARACTER. 



Stem leafy ; lobe of the style triangular-oblong, obtuse ; exterior petals ovate-oblong, 

 acuminate ; interior very long, linear, contorted ; lip compressed, shorter 

 than the petals. Willd. 



SYNONYMS. 



Cypripedium flavescens, Redout, pi. liliac. 

 C. calceolus, /3. Sp. PI. 1346. 

 C. calceolus, Walt. 



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