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intermediate form between C. lahiata and C. Mossia. It is 

 named in honour of the late T. Dawson, Esq., of Meadow 

 Bank, in whose splendid collection it first flowered. It grows 

 a foot or more high. The leaves are of a dark green colour, 

 and of unusual thickness. The flowers are produced in 

 clusters of three or four, very large, being some six or seven 

 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals delicate rosy purple ; 

 lip large, the upper part straw colour or yellow, the rest 

 being of a beautiful roseate hue, and the margin fringed. 

 The flowers are of good substance, and consequently last a 

 long time in perfection. It is one of the grandest of its 

 class, beautifully figured in the first volume of Warner's 

 " Select Orchidaceous Plants." Introduced, it is supposed, 

 from Brazil. 



C. Devoniana. — This beautiful hybrid, for which we are 

 indebted to the skill of Mr. Dominy, is in growth like Lcclia 

 elegans, making thin pseudobulbs, each bearing two leaves 

 some six or eight inches long ; flowers upwards of five 

 inches in diameter and produced in September ; sepals and 

 petals white tinged with pink, which becomes deeper towards 

 the points. Lip deep rosy purple. 



C. dolosa. — A very pretty novelty, bulbs five or six 

 inches long, leaves situated in pairs four inches long, about 

 two and a half inches broad, oval, flowers of a beautiful pink 

 colour wdth a yellow disc to the lip. This species is said 

 to be somewhat similar to C. Walkeriana. 



C. Dominiana. — A beautiful addition to this fine family ; 

 a garden hybrid, in habit resembling Lcclia elegans, but 

 somewhat less robust. The flow^ers are six inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals white, delicately shaded with 

 pink ; lip rosy purple, edged with white, and deep orange 

 in the throat. 



C, Dominiana alba, — This plant resembles the C. Dominiana 



