Calypso
(from the beautiful nymph, Calypso, or from Greek kalypto, to conceal; in reference to its place of growth). ORD. Orchideae. An elegant terrestrial monotypic genus. It thrives well in half-shady spots on the margins of a rock garden or artificial bog, in a light, moist, vegetable soil, composed of peat, leaf soil, and sand, mulched with cocoa-nut fibre refuse in winter. Propagated by offsets.
C. borealis (Northern).* fl. solitary, delicate rose and brown, with a yellow crest on the lip; labellum longer than the sepals, the lateral lobes cohering in their upper part over the saccate central one, which is usually bifid at the tip, resembling those of a Cypripedium. Summer. l. solitary, thin, many-nerved, ovate or cordate. Stems usually thickening into pseudobulbs. h. 4in. High latitudes of Northern hemisphere, 1820. (B. M. 2763.)