28 0IICHIDACEJ5 LINDENIAN^. [Physurus. 



I am not sure that this is the same as Presl's Peruvian plant. Its 

 lip appears to be less sagittate ; indeed it is not sagittate at all, 

 being furnished with two short diverging lobes. Its flowers too 

 are less hairy, according to the memoranda in my herbarium. 

 The two plants, however, if not the same, are very nearly so. 



142. P. rarifiorus ; caulescens, foliis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis 

 undulatis 3-nerviis scapo glabro multo brevioribus, floribus distantibus 

 pra3sertim infimo, petalis linearibus cuspidatis erectis, labello concavo 

 carnoso margine incrassato apice obscure trilobo obtusissimo, calcare 

 pendulo obtuso angusto. 



" Terrestrial. Forests of Galipan, in Garaccas, at the height of 5000 feet; 

 March. Flowers yellow." {No. — ). 



SUB-ORDER VII.— CYPRIPEDEiE. 



UROPEDIUM. 



Gen. Nov. Omnia Cypripedii, sed labellum planum et petala 

 longissime caudata. Anthera sterilis trilobo-hastata. 



143. U. Lindenii. 



" This singular and magnificent plant grows on the ground in the little 



woods of the Savannah, in that elevated part of the Cordillera which 



overlooks the vast forests at the bottom of the lake of Maracayho, and 



situated on the territory of the Indians of GUguara, at the height of 



8600 feet. Sepals oval-lanceolate, pale yellow, streaked with orange. 



Petals purple, orange at the base. The flower may be from fifteen to 



twenty inches long in its greatest diameter. Leaves thick and fleshy ; 



June 1843." {No number). 



The habit of this curious plant is exactly that of Cypripedimn insigne. 



The leaves are a foot long, blunt, unequally two-toothed at the 



point, shining, spotless, and longer than the downy scape. The 



bracts are two, of which the exterior is spathaceous, compressed, 



blunt, coriaceous, and much longer than the inner. The 



peduncle is six inches long, downy, and one-flowered. The 



upper sepal is ovate-lanceolate, and four inches long ; the lower 



are united into one of the same form, but rather wider. The 



petals are linear-lanceolate, extended into a long narrow tail, and 



are probably eight or nine inches long, but in my specimens 



they are broken. The lip is of exactly the same form, but 



broader, and like the sepals is shaggy at the base. 



THE END. 



