1870.] 
lady’s slippers.-CHAPTER III. 
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bearing its flowers in April and May. Our figure was prepared from specimens 
which bloomed in the nursery of Messrs. Veitch and Sons last February. 
Cypripedium Lowii is a stove herb, with leathery, oblong-ligulate, obtuse, 
emarginate, yellowish-green leaves. The scape is downy, and of a dull purple, 
