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Burbidge, who collected it in the Lazas River district for Messrs. Veitch, by whom it was 

 exhibited before the Floral Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, who awarded 

 it a first-class certificate. 



The young pitchers are clothed, like N. lanata, with a brownish woolly covering ; the wings are prominent and 

 deeply toothed. Immediately under the lid there are two well-defined horn-like appendages, slightly hooked down- 

 wards over the mouth of the pitcher. On the back of the neck of the pitcher there is also a hook-like appendage, 

 covered with short hairs. It seems to form its pitchers freely, although the plant exhibited by Messrs. Veitch, as 

 well as another example we have seen since, had not attained sufficient size to produce them near so large as they 

 are said to be when fully grown. 



Calaoteie vestita. WalUch. A very handsome terrestrial Orchid, from Burma. 

 Flowers white, with a deep stain of bright crimson in the middle of the lip. Flowers in 

 November. Introduced by Messrs. Veitch. (Fig. 69, a and b.) 



This is scarcely less beautiful than C. sylvatica, gee p. 17 of the present volume : and must be classed among the 



finest of the terrestrial Orchids. The stems are fully two feet high, and like all the other parts are clothed with long soft 

 hairs — very slender, long-jointed, of unequal thickness, and blunt, containing in their interior a brown fluid. The 

 flowers are in loose, zig-zag racemes, with conspicuous ovate acuminate bracts. The sepals and petals are finally turned 

 back so as to be nearly parallel with each other ; they are snow-white, with a few hairs on the back of the first. The 

 lip is bluntly 4-lobed, with a narrow short ear on each side at the base. The spur is very slender, and abruptly bent 

 upwards, so that its point touches the lip. A large silver medal, the highest ever given in Regent Street, was awarded 

 to this plant by the Horticultural Society on the 7th of Nov., 1848, when it was exhibited by Messrs. Veitch for the 

 first time. 



Cypripedium Spicerianum. A very handsome small-growing species, one of the most 

 beautiful of all the Lady's Slippers. 



This species is near C. Fairrieanum, having the same narrow petals, curved down sideways, light green, with 

 a purple middle line, and minute freckles on upper side over middle line, border much waved. Upper sepal trans- 

 verse oblong, blunt, acute, margin refiexed, light green at the base, pure white above, with middle line purple. 

 Lateral sepals acute, of a light greenish-white. Lip like C. Fairrieanum, but larger, olive-green, anterior part brown, 

 side-lobes margined red. Staminode nearly square, with three blunt evanescent lobes in front, mauve, with white 

 anterior border, yellow in centre. — Gardener's Chronicle, N.S., vol. xiii., p. 365. 



