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Also in the way of No. 1. But the dorsal sepal is convex, white with purple veins, and all the other 

 parts are deeply stained with purple. The leaves are much shorter and more oblong than in any 

 of the preceding. 



5. Low's LadyVslipper. (C. Lowei, Lindley.) 



In Borneo and Sarawak. 



Remarkable for the extension of the petals into two long spathulate bodies blotched with purple. 

 When wild it has 8-10 flowers on a scape. 



6. The Glandular LadyVslipper. (C. glanduliflorum, Blume.) 



New Guinea, on old decaying trunks of trees. 

 Leaves like those of No. 7. Plowers large, about 2 or 3 on a scape, with long twisted petals, bearing 

 hairy glands on their edge ; and a large pale pink lip, which bears within it a pair of long 

 reversed horns. 



7. The Bannered LadyVslipper. (C. indgne, Wallich.) 



Mountains of Sylhet and Khasiya. 



Leaves narrow, not stained. Mowers large, with an orange-coloured lip, a broad dorsal greenish 

 sepal, edged with white, and long spreading flat greenish petals. 



8. Lindley' s LadyVslipper. (C. IAndleyanum, Schomburgk.) 



Damp meadows of Guayana, among Sundews, Sunjars (Eeliamp/wras), and similar 

 plants. 



A stout, hard leaved plant, with a stem 2 feet high, covered with rusty down. "Flowers brown, in a 

 one-sided panicle, having coarse spathaceous bracts at their base. Lip small, oblong, green. 

 A very curious, but not handsome plant. 



9. The Sedgy Lady's-slipper. (C. caricinum; foliis angustissimis coriaceis acutis unicostatis scapi 

 tomentosi longitudine, racemo plurifloro, bracteis ovatis spathaceis glabris ovario glabro brevioribus, 

 sepalis lateralibus connatis labelli longitudine, petalis in caudam acuminatis.) 



Found in Bolivia by Bridges. 



10. The Long-tailed Lady's-slipper. (C. caudatum, Lindley.) 



Mountains of Peru. 



The subject of this Plate. The opposite woodcut gives some idea of the appearance of the plant 

 in a wild state. 



