. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. CYPEIPEDIUM. 225 in having tlie lip apparently grown to the face of the column and thus connate; sepals connivent; petals fixed under the dorsal sepal; lip spurred, quadri-partite; column short, anther horizontal and lying on its back, with elongated cells. Culture.—Same as Habenaria. C. ELEGANS, Bchh. f.—A charming plant producing lanceolate, acute, light green leaves, about 2^ inches long. The scape bears from 6 to 10 or more flowers; sepals and petals sm
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. CYPEIPEDIUM. 225 in having tlie lip apparently grown to the face of the column and thus connate; sepals connivent; petals fixed under the dorsal sepal; lip spurred, quadri-partite; column short, anther horizontal and lying on its back, with elongated cells. Culture.—Same as Habenaria. C. ELEGANS, Bchh. f.—A charming plant producing lanceolate, acute, light green leaves, about 2^ inches long. The scape bears from 6 to 10 or more flowers; sepals and petals small, of a beautiful rose colour; lip with a trifid front lobe which is rose suffused with rosy-purple.—Madagascar. C. GRANDIFLORA, Bidley.— " Sepals oblong-lanceolate, green, red-spotted ; petals narrower, white, lip broadly four-lobed. There are two varieties of this species, one called purj3urea, which has a purple lip spotted at the base, and is scentless; the other is albata, the lip of which is white, purple at the base, and is fra- ;—Ancanfa, Madagascar. Fio.—Cfard. Mag., 1893, p. 138 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiii. p. 197, f. 27. C. LOWIANA, Bchh. /.—Not unlike the preceding in habit, but the leaves are somewhat larger and acuminate. The free limb of the lip in this species has the appear- ance of being quadri-fld, through the bifurcation of the mid-lobe; petals and sepals greenish-white; lip purplish-rose.—Madagascar. CYPRIPEDITJM, Linnaeus. (_Tril)e Cypripedieae.) This remarkably distinct genus consists partly of terrestrial and partly of epiphytal species, the tropical kinds included in this chapter mostly belonging to the latter series. The various hardy and half-hardy kinds representing the terrestrial group produce erect leafy deciduous stems with the leaves stongly ribbed; while the more numerous race of tropical species have mostly very short stems, bearing leathery leaves, from among which the one or more flowered scapes spr
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