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Chiachi Ids.
Notes on Cypripedium
guttatum Smith.
Stem 2 or 3 leaves, hirsute 6 - 15 in
high. Flower 1 or rarely 2.
Leaves 2 - 4 in long, hirsute finely below
smooth above.
A single small bract at the base
of the ovary.
2 anterior sepals slightly separated
at the tips, light green with
streaks of maroon on edges
Posterior sepal large overhanging
with the outer side waxen white
the edges and occasionally the
nerves touched with dark claret
color. Inner side dark maroon
slightly mottled with light yellow
near the base of insertion and
there thickly set with fine stiff
outward pointing hairs
Petals small and hirsute at the base
like the last, then widening and
again attenuating toward the tip
which is enlarged rounded and
patulous like the "tail" of a butterfly.
Whitish at the base then white
mottled with dark maroon and
with a conspicuous white spot
on the rounded end, edged with
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grows on wet hillsides exposed to
the sun -
maroon.
Lip large, pocket shaped, narrow
at the insertion, the inner edges
folding over one another in front
of the column and with a narrow
white reflexed edge nearly
all round. Median line behind
& below indented forming a raphe
which is raised on the inner side
and thickly covered with strong
thickset hairs pointing toward
the base of the column.
Reflexed portion of the lip pure
white. interior whitish. Outside
claret color more or less
mottled with greenish white
on the lines of nervation
Column stout, foursided at
the base, rounded above
stigmatic part hoof shaped
rounded on the edge & with a
keel behind. Two small rounded
short hornlike stamens bear
each a 2 celled anther of very
gummy pollen keeled below
rounded in two kidney shaped
lobes above incurved, & notched
in front - golden yellow behind
above & below white in front
and dotted with specks of maroon
column greenish white. Note fliesTranscription Notes:
Geographic name checked/verified: Chiachi Ids
