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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING. 
Cypripedium—continued. 
greenish body; petals yellowish at base, freckled mauve-purple 
on the outer half, descending, broadly ligulate ; lip as in C. bar- 
batum, but better-coloured. 1884. Hybrid. 
C. preestans (excellent). #. nearly as large as those of 
Selenipedium grande ; sepals nearly equal, the dorsal one banded 
green and maroon; petals greenish, suffused rose at base, 
and spotted maroon along the margins, linear-ligulate, much 
undulated at base; lip greenish-yellow, with a golden crest, 
shaped like that of C. Stonei, having a very long, channelled 
stalk ; peduncle dark-hairy, five-flowered. Papua, 1884, (G.C. 
ser. iil., vol. ii., p. 814; I. H. ser. v. 26.) 
Cc. radissum. #/l., dorsal sepal white, marked with manuve- 
purple nerves, which are green at their base and have a green 
tint between them; the lower ones lined light brown; petals 
green, with a brown mid-line, and numerous brown spots on the 
upper margin, the front borders washed brownish; lip as in C. 
Lawrenceanum, brown in front, with a green border. J. light 
green, with dark, transverse markings. 1885. A garden hybrid 
between C. Lawrenceanum and C. Spicerianwn. 
C. regale (royal). jl. large; dorsal sepal large, spreading, bright 
green at base, marked rosy-purple, and nerved bronzy-green, the 
upper half and margins pure white; petals broadly ligulate, 
deflexed, slightly incurved, purplish-crimson at base, shading off 
to rosy-crimson at apex and bordered white ; lip claret-coloured, 
large. 1887. Hybrid between C. purpuratwm and C. insigne 
Mautlei. 
C. Robbelenii (Rébbelen’s). /., upper sepal whitish, nerved 
purple, narrow; the lower one purplish-white, longer than the 
lip, with some microscopic purple dots at the base; lip light 
yellow; staminode light ochre; peduncle hairy. J. narrower 
than in C. levigatwm (to which this plant is allied). Philippine 
Islands, 1883, 
C. Rothschildianum (Baron F. de Rothschild’s). /., odd 
sepal yellowish, with blackish, longitudinal stripes, and white 
borders, cuneate-oblong, acute; lateral sepals united into one 
smaller, shorter body; petals yellowish-green, with dark lines, 
and with dark blotches at base; lip cinnamon-brown, the mouth 
bordered ochre, very strong, almost leathery; staminode rising 
erect from a stout base, and bending down into a narrow, beak- 
like process. J, above 2ft. long, from 24in. to din. wide, glossy 
green, very strong. Papua, 1887. 
C. Sanderianum (Sander’s). /l., sepals yellowish-green, nerved 
purplish-brown ; petals purplish-brown, fading to yellowish, 
spotted and barred purplish-brown towards the base, where there 
are some retrorse, purple bristles, linear, twisted, 1ft. to lft. 
long ; lip greenish-bronze, in shape resembling that of C. Stonei. 
Malay Archipelago, 1886. (R. 3.) 
Cc. selligerum majus (greater). A fine and handsome plant, 
with larger flowers than in the type. 1886. 
C. Stonei platytzenium (broad-bordered). /., dorsal sepal white, 
striped purple; petals 4in. to Sin. long, jin. broad, curved down- 
wards, whitish outside, spotted and tinted yellow, deep crimson- 
purple at the tips, the inner surface white, blotched reddish- 
purple; lip as in the type. (F. M. ser. ii. 414; G. C. 1867, 
p. 1118; R. X. O. ii. 161; W.S. O. iii. 14.) 
Cc. superciliare (prominently ciliated). /. smaller than in (, 
superbiens ; dorsal sepal ovate-triangular; petals ligulate, 
ciliated, warted and blotched except towards the tip. A hybrid 
between (©. barbatum and C. superbiens, which latter it closely 
resembles. 
Cc. Swanianum (Swan's). /l. as large as those of C. barbatwm, 
long-stalked ; dorsal sepal white, veined purplish-crimson, large 
and broad; petals pale vinous-red, nerved green, broad, bent 
down, bordered with retrorse bristles, having a few small warts 
on the upper edge ; lip dark crimson-purple, large, warted on the 
inflected sides of the base. J. broadly ligulate, acute, tessellated. 
A hybrid between C. Dayanwm and C. barbatum. There are one 
or two varieties of this plant. 
Cc. Tautzianum (Tautz’). l., median sepal white, veined purple, 
elliptic, acute, the lateral ones similarly coloured, connate; 
petals nerved and spotted purple; lip dark purple, with warts 
on the involved side laciniz, pale beneath towards the base. 
1886. Hybrid. 
Cc. Thibautianum (Thibaut’s). 7., sepals green, with rows of 
brown spots, the dorsal one bordered white; petals shining 
brown, the upper part light green with small, brown spots; lip 
pale yellowish, the front part brown. 1886. A garden hybrid 
between C. Harrisianum and C. insigne Maulei. 
C, tonkinense (Tonkin). A variety of C. concolor. 
Cc. tonsum (shorn). #., dorsal sepal whitish, with twenty-one 
green nerves, a small brown blotch on each border inside, and a 
green disk outside, the lower sepals half as long as the lip; 
petals oblong-ligulate, acute, nearly free from ciliw#, green, 
washed with sepia, and spotted with dark brown; lip greenish, 
the upper surface washed with sepia. J. rather narrow, marked 
asin C. Dayanwm. Sumatra or Java, 1883. 
Cc. venustum pardinum (leopard-marked). /., sepals and 
petals white, striped green, the petals also blotched dark choco- 
late; lip greenish-yellow, marked rose. 1887, Perhaps the 
finest, and certainly the largest-flowered, variety. (G. C. ser. iii., 
vol. i., p. 382.) 
Cypripedium—continued. 
Cc. v. spectabile (remarkable). jl. solitary ; dorsal sepal white, 
with broad, green stripes ; petals greenish-white, streaked deeper 
green, tipped rose-red; lip greenish-yellow, tinged rose. 
(W.S. O, iil. 24.) 
Cc. Vervaétianum (Vervaét's). /., upper sepal white, greenish 
at base, transverse, oblong, apiculate, nerved brownish-purple ; 
lower sepals acute, half as long as the lip; lip reddish-brown, 
angulate on each side; petals deflexed, ciliate at base, with 
blackish, ocular spots and light purple-brown hairs; peduncle 
brown with short hairs. J. resembling those of C. Lawrenceanum, 
but with the whitish spaces much larger. A hybrid between 
C. Lawrenceanum and C, superbiens. 1888. 
Cc. villosum aureum (golden). /. 6in. across; upper part of 
the dorsal sepal bright yellow, broadly margined with white. 
Moulmein. A fine variety. 
C. Williamsianum (Williams’). /., dorsal sepal white, large, 
with a blackish-brown, central bar, and green nerves; petals 
reddish-brown on the upper side of the dark brown, median line, 
and white, with a coppery tint, on the lower side, dotted black 
near the base, oblong-ligulate, acute, the margins ciliated; lip 
yellowish beneath, light brown above, with an ochreous border. 
1. distinctly tessellated. 1886. Garden hybrid. 
Cc. Winnianum (Winn’s). 7., dorsal sepal whitish-yellow, dark 
purplish-brown in the centre, oblong, acute, not broad, the lower 
ones pale ochre ;_ petals reddish on the upper side of the brown 
mid-line, and yellow on the lower side; lip (and leaves) as in 
C. villosum. 1886. A hybrid between C. Druryi and C. villosum, 
CYRTANDRA (from kyrtos, curved, and aner, andros, 
a male; alluding to the curved filaments of the perfect 
stamens). ORpD. Gesneracee. A genus embracing about 
sixty species of stove trees, shrubs, or sub-shrubs, natives 
of the Malayan Archipelago and the Pacifie Islands. 
Flowers often whitish or yellowish, fascicled, capitate, or 
cymose in the axils; calyx free, five-cleft or somewhat 
five-parted; corolla sub-bilabiate; perfect stamens two ; 
staminodes two or three, small; bracts small, or the outer 
ones ample. Leaves opposite, one often smaller, or by 
abortion nearly alternate. For culture of the two species 
introduced, see Agalmyla, on p. 35, Vol. I. - 
Cc. pendula (pendulous). jl. sessile; calyx brownish, ten to 
eleven lines long ; corolla white, dotted purple on the lower side 
of the inflated part, 1}in. long, sub-equally five-lobed ; peduncle 
about 6in. long, bent down. J. opposite, on long petioles, elliptic 
or elliptic-lanceolate, acute at apex, acute or sub-cordate at base, 
blotched grey above. Stem short and stout. Java, 1883. 
C, Pritchardii (Pritchard’s). jl. white, small, disposed in 
pedunculate, axillary, three-flowered cymes. fr. white, ovoid. 
l, petiolate, elliptic, obtusely toothed, acute at both ends, 5in. 
to 6in. long, 2in. to 24in. broad. Fiji, 1887. 
CYRTANTHUS. To the species described on p. 428, 
Vol. I., the following hybrid should now be added: 
Cc. hybridus (hybrid). fl. light orange-scarlet or bright rosy- 
carmine. In general appearance this hybrid between C. san- 
gquineus and Vallota purpurea resembles the latter parent, but 
the perianth tube is bent forward and rather abruptly dilated 
in the throat, and the segments are rather narrower. The 
stamens are short, and the upper ones are curved downwards 
exactly as in C. sanguineus. 1885. 
CYRTOCHILUM. This genus is now included, by 
Bentham and Hooker, under Oncidium. To the species 
described on p. 428, Vol. I., the following should now be 
added: 
C. detortum (distorted). ., sepals light brown, cuneate-oblong, 
acute, wavy, the odd one with a little yellow at the upper part; 
petals yellow, spotted brown, wavy; lip three-cleft, the side 
laciniw spreading, triangular, and the mid-lacinia ligulate, 
acute; peduncle very strong, twisted. J. broad-oblong, acute, 
light green. 
Cc. lutescens (yellowish). j., dorsal sepal dark brown, with a 
yellow, recurved margin, much waved at the edge, the stalk very 
short, with auricles, the lateral ones greenish-brown, acute, 
longer-stalked; petals with a crisped, yellow limb; lip dark 
greenish, ligulate, short, the anterior part purple; column 
greenish, orange, and brown. 1887. 
CYRTOPODIUM. This genus embraces upwards of 
a score species of stove, terrestrial Orchids, inhabiting 
tropical Asia, Africa, and America. Sepals free, spreading, 
sub-equal, or the lateral ones broader at base and more or 
less decurrent into the foot of the column; petals similar 
to the dorsal sepal, but rather broader and shorter; lip 
affixed to the base of the column, the chin more or less 
prominent, the lateral lobes rather broad, the middle one 
