The Scientific Notebooks of German Orchidologist Friedrich Wilhelm Ludwig Kränzlin

Orch. [crossed out: illegible] Album tab. 196.

Cypriped. Schroedeae. Rbch. f. Gard. Chron. XIX. 432. Garden hybrid

Leaves 1' long or more, strap shaped, taper pointed & spreading. Scape taller than the leaves, branched densely pubescent, bearing about 5 large & highly coloured flowers with compressed glabrous, semiovate, spathaceous subfalcate bracts, becoming smaller upwards, greenish blotched with purple. Flowers large, solitary, very distinct in aspect; sepals ovate, 2" long & 1" broad, downy [crossed out: at the base] on both surfaces flushed with rose & faintly veined with olive-green, the central & stouter veins tinted with rose, the lower one broadly ovate obtuse concave; petals deflexed about 4" long, 1/2 " broad at the base especially on the lower side, the hairs deep purple; lip large, 1" broad & nearly 2" long, oblong, very obtuse, the opening about 1" deep, dark purplish rose or dull crimson, somewhat veiny with deeper rose, the anterior edge crenulate the broadly infolded fleshy edges creamy white with short stiff hairs. Staminode fleshy, transversely oblong, with a short claw, the front edge with a central apiculus, where it is recurved against the tongue-shaped lower portion, creamy white, with a whisker-like fringe of deep purple hairs behind & on the lower side a fleshy bluntly-triangular process having its upper surface hollowed out & set thickly on both surfaces with short stiff hairs.