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XCVIII. ORCHIDACEiE 
pink, larger than the flowers. Sepals narrowly oblong, lateral ones 
spreading, upper one recurved. Petals smaller than the sepals, 
recurved. Lip uppermost, sessile on the base of the column, erect, 
hoodlike, margins turned back ; spurs 2, pointing downwards, 
usually slender and about as long as the ovary, sometimes stout 
and not half as long. Column short, bearing 2 ear-like processes. 
Anther pendant from the top of the column, cells contiguous ; 
pollinia 2, caudicles recurved, glands large, exposed, ivory-white. 
Stigma broad, concave. (Fig. 168.) 
Simla, common; July-September. — Himalaya. — Throughout India. 
18. CYPRIPEDIUM. From Cypris, the Greek for Venus, 
and pedilon, a slipper ; referring to the shape of the lip.- — Europe, 
Asia, America. 
Cypripedium cordigerum, Don ; FI. Br. Ind. vi. 170. Glabrous 
or nearly so. Root fibrous. Flowering-stem 1-2 ft., erect, leafy. 
Leaves spreading, ovate or lanceolate, 5x3 in., acute. Flower 
solitary, terminal ; bract large, leaf-like. Sepals green, ovate- 
lanceolate, 1^-2 in., long-pointed, the 2 lateral united and placed 
under the lip, the third erect and above it. Petals green or 
white, spreading, lanceolate. Lip 1-1 J in. long, white, sessile, 
folded to form an oblong, inflated, open-mouthed pouch. Column 
short, curved over and nearly closing the posterior portion of 
the mouth and bearing a shield-like process at its end. Anthers 
2, globose, one on each side of the base of the column ; pollen- 
grains glutinous. Ovary straight ; style very short, stigma 
oblong, its face turned downwards. 
Mushobra, 7500-8000 ft., Mahasu, Fagoo, Narkunda ; May, June. — 
W. Himalaya, 7000-11,000 ft. 
Lady’s Slipper. See Darwin, p. 226. 
XCIX. SCITAMINEiE 
Glabrous herbs ; roots cylindrical, fleshy ; stems erect, un- 
branched. Leaves alternate, sometimes only one, lanceolate, 
entire, sessile or stalked, veins numerous, parallel. Flowers 
showy, irregular, 2-sexual, in terminal spikes ; one or several in 
the axil of each bract. Perianth superior. Calyx tubular, toothed. 
Corolla-tube short or long and slender, slightly dilated towards 
the top and expanding in a 3-lobed limb, the upper lobe usually 
erect and concave ; within the corolla there is a second whorl of 
3 petal-like segments or staminodes, the two lateral usually erect, 
the lower broader, spreading and usually lobed. Fertile stamen 1, 
filament short, erect, grooved, inserted on the mouth of the 
corolla-tube ; anther linear-oblong, curved, versatile, cells 2, 
