Plate 57. 
MAULE’S LADY’S-SLIPPEB. 
Cypripedium insigne Maulii . 
This very fine and attractive form of Lady’s Slipper, was 
produced at one of the meetings of the Boyal Horticultural 
Society during the latter part of the past year, and was then 
adjudged a first-class certificate. The larger proportion than 
usual of white on the broad incurving upper sepal, and the 
fine purple spotting on this white ground, which were its dis¬ 
tinguishing features, gave it a very attractive appearance. 
The plant is described to us as obviously different from the 
usual states of C. insigne , in being considerably smaller in sta¬ 
ture, and furnished with long but narrow leaves. The leaves are 
quite green, narrowing at the end, with an unequal-sided notch, 
and keeled at the back in the usual way. The flower-scape is 
tall, purplish, downy with short purple hairs, and bearing at 
top a smooth compressed sheath, from which issues a solitary 
flower. The ovary is purple and downy like the scape. The 
sepaline divisions are slightly pubescent and ciliated, the dorsal 
one large fornicate wavy, strongly keeled or ribbed behind, 
roundish-oblong, emarginate, about two and a half inches long 
and nearly as much in breadth, smooth and pale green towards 
the base, and there marked with brownish-purple distinct wart¬ 
like spots; the remaining upper part, for more than half its 
length, and extending down to the edge towards the base, being 
white, marked about the centre with a few large spots of a 
distinct purple colour. The lower or double sepal is ovate, 
Plate 57. —Cypripedium ixsigke, var. Maulii: habit and general aspect 
that of the species, but smaller, with long narrow leaves; flowers large, the 
dorsal sepal two-thirds white, spotted with purple, the green basal portion 
spotted as usual with purplish-brown. 
