CYPRIPEDIUM PUBESCENS.
LARGE YELLOW LADY’S-SLIPPER.
Gynandria Diandria, Linn. Orchidea?, Juss.
GENERIC CHARACTER.
Lip ventricose, inflated, saccate. Petals 4, the under one bifid. The column terminating
behind in a petaloid lobe.
SPECIFIC CHARACTER.
Stem leafy; lobe of the style triangular-oblong, obtuse; exterior petals ovate-oblong,
acuminate j interior very long, linear, contorted; lip compressed, shorter
than the petals. Willd.
SYNONYMS.
C y pr iped ium flavescens, Redout, pi. liliac.
C. calceolus, /3. Sp. PI. 1346.
C. calceolus, Walt.
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