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CYPRIPEDiUM arietinum.
Ram’s-head Ladies'-Slipper.
Natural Order. O r c h id e æ . Brown prodr. 309.
Sect. V I. D i â NDREÆ. Stamina 2 antheriferu.
C Y P R IP E D IU M . Supra fol. 71.
C. arietinum, caule folioso, foliis lanceolatis glabris obsolete ner-
vosis amplexicaulibus, perianthium pentapbyllum, labello saccato-
calcarato piloso.
Cypripedium arietinum. Botan. magaz. 1569. Hort. Kew. ed. 2.
n. 5. p . 222. Spreng.syst.S. p . l i b .
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Stems several from the same root, about 6 inches in
height, densely clothed with very short rigid hairs, slender,
erect or slightly flexuose, bearing four or five leaves. Leaves
lanceolate, acute, sessile and clasping the stem, attenuated
towards the base, concave on the upper side and keeled underneath,
slightly veined, and striated with numerous longitudinal
lines, smooth on both sides, the margins fringed with
very short hairs. Flowers solitary, terminal, leaning forward,
slightly fragrant. Ovarium angular, channelled, leaning
forward, not twisted, clothed with very short hairs. Perianthium
of 5 leaflets, green tinged with purple, and clothed
with small glandular hairs ; upper one ovately lanceolate,
acute, arched over, the point slightly reflexed : 2 side
ones very narrow, linear, acute; 2 lower ones spreading,
falcately lanceolate, scarcely acute, about the length of or
scarcely as long as the labellum. Labellum inflated at the
mouth, tapering to the base, clothed with woolly hairs, particularly
near the mouth, where they form a dense white patch,
white, elegantly veined and netted with purple ; inside densely
hairy. Column lobe nearly round, spoon-shaped, keeled
in the centre, which makes a hollow on each side : side lobes
shorter, blunt, hollow, each containing an anther. Stamens
2, one in each of the side lobes. Style curved inward. Stigma
large, thick, fleshy, nearly orbicular, slightly fimbriate.
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