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CYPRIPEDIUM venustum. 
Spotted-leaved Ladies’ Slipper. 
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GYNANDRIA DIANDRI4A. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDER. Jussiew gen. 64. Brown prod. 1. 300. Div. 
Diandria. 
CYPRIPEDIUM.  Labellum ventricosum, inflatum (nunc saccatum). 
Columna posticé terminata lobo petaloideo (stamine sterili), antheras dis- 
tinguente. Petala dua antica sepiis connata. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2. 
5, 220. 
C. venustum, foliis distachyo-patentibus, equitantibus, lanceolato-oblongis, 
acute canaliculatis eneryiis, supra triste glaucescentibus, maculis obscu- 
ris informibus laxé notatis, subtus purpureo-punctatis, scapo villoso. 
Cypripedium venustum. Wallich MSS. Curtis’s magaz. 2129. 
Acaulis. Folia firmiuscula, radicalia, plura ad plurima, alterné et 
imbricaté bifaria, basi equitantia superne recurvo-patentia, oblonga, dcutata, 
alté et acutissimé carinata, 4-5-uncialia latitudine subunciali, ex “‘glauco 
triste virentia, opaca, papillulis atomoideis veluti in Aranee epidermidi 
dens? pruinata, cartilagine subtili marginata, supra maculis saturatioribus 
subliteratis laxeé sparsa, avenia, enervia, subtus glabriora pallidiora et punc- 
tis purpureis rotundis varie approximatis vel passim confluentibus et modo in 
lineas catenatis sparsa. Scapus rigidus foliis parum altior, erectus, teres, 
marmorato-maculosus, villosus, pennd corvind crassior. Germen sessile*eb- 
longum villosum spatha brevius, costis rotundatis, 3 alternis minoribus. Co- 
rollam!vecentem completam nequimus habere; sed ex tabula CYPRIPEDII 
insignis pluribus videtur diversam. 
Our plant is a recent acquisition from the East Indies, 
and the first that has accrued to the genus from that coun- 
try. Independent of novelty and beauty, the paramount 
importance of conformity in the structure of those organs 
which have been adopted for generic standard, receives 
from this species an unprecedented illustration, even when 
contending with extreme anomaly of habit. Who of us, 
if he could have been apprized of this difference alone, that 
would not have prognosticated such consequent distinction 
in those parts, termed from their influence essential, that 
would at least have justified the removal of plants of 
so heterogeneous an appearance into separate groups? But 
he will find, upon inspection, that the present species can, 
with no more propriety, be kept from a place in Cyprr- 
pepiuM than those which rank in that genus by almost 
indefinable gradation. 
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