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Warner's ^^ Select Orchidaceous Plants ^^ as C. amethystoglossay 

 saving that the ground colour of the flowers is of a pure lemon 

 colour, spotted as in the one preceding ; the lip is broad, and 

 of a rich cream colour. 



C. hicolor. — A beautiful and free-flowering Orchid from 

 Brazil ; sepals and petals pale green, sometimes brown tinged 

 with green ; lip rich purple. It blooms in September, and 

 remains a long time in perfection. It produces as many as 

 eight or ten flowers on a spike. This is a strong grower, 

 rising eighteen inches or two feet high. There were two 

 beautiful varieties of this plant in the collection of the late T. 

 Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank. 



C. Boissieri. — Leaves oblong, somewhat broad, but short, 

 sepals and petals soft rosy-lilac, lip broad, beautifully blotched 

 with yellow. Native of New Grenada. 



C. BrabanticB. — This is one of the Messrs. Veitch and Sons' 

 hybrids, the result of a cross between C. AclandicB and C. 

 Loddigesii, and will doubtless require the same treatment as its 

 parents, which are both natives of the warmer parts of Brazil. 

 It is a stm'dy dwarf-growing variety, with the colours of both 

 species very equally and handsomely blended. 



C. Candida. — A desirable free-growing species from Brazil, 

 grows about a foot high ; sepals and petals delicate white, 

 slightly shaded with pink ; the lip of the same colour, with 

 a shade of yellow in the centre. It flowers from July to 

 November, and lasts three or four weeks in good condition, if 

 the flowers are kept free from damp. This plant makes two 

 growths in a year, and blooms from both, producing three or 

 four flowers on a spike. This plant has become very rare in 

 cultivation. 



C. chocoensis. — The colours and markings of the different 

 varieties of this species appear to vary considerably. The 

 pseudobulbs bear a single oblong stout leaf; flowers large, 



