Beneath this, at its base, are 2 short, lateral processes or filaments, to the 
side of each of which is attached a single, sessile, 2-lobed, orange-yellow 
anther ; its lobes rather unequal. Pollen yellow-brown, waxy. Stigme 
much smaller than the lobe above described, pelt, rounded, glabrous, 
pale yellow. 
This, the finest, without exception, of the known species 
belonging to that most singular and beautiful genus, Cypri- 
— pedium, is a native of the same country as the C. venustum, 
namely Nepaul, and has many points in common with that 
"species, among which the distichous mode of growth, and suc- 
culent nature of its leaves, are not the least remarkable. 
The truly excellent representation of this plant i in the splen- 
did Collectanea Botanica of Mr LinpDLEY, represents the 
leaves of C. insigne as much shorter than were those of my 
specimen, and ee also by being decidedly marked = 
nerves. 
‘The individual from which Mr LINDLEy’s figure and de- 
scription were taken, was, as well as my own, communicated 
by Mr SuepuHerp, from the Liverpool Botanic Garden, 
whither it was introduced from that of Calcutta, in the year 
1821. 
It flowers in the month of Meshes, and the blossoms | 
continue for a great length of time in perfection. 
Fig. 1. Under side of the Column of Fructification. Fig. 2. Upper view of 
the same. Fig. 3. Stamen, with its 2-celled Anther.—All more or less 
magn ified. 
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