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bearing several flowers ; sepals and petals pure white ; lip 

 white, with a stain of pale yellow on the disc. It blooms 

 during March and April. Native of Assam. 



C. Lowii. — A fine evergreen species from Borneo. It is 

 rather a large plant, growing about two feet high ; the flowers 

 are produced on a drooping spike, about a foot long, twelve or 

 more of them together ; they are large, of a pale yellow and 

 chocolate colour. It blooms in June or July ; lasts two 

 weeks in good condition. This requires a large pot to 

 grow it in perfection, being one of the freest of all the 

 Ccelogijnes. 



C. media. — A pretty small-gi'owing species, with short round 

 bulbs, and leaves seven inches long; flowers on spikes ten 

 inches high ; sepals and petals creamy white ; lip yellow and 

 brown ; blooms during winter, and lasts in perfection three or 

 four weeks ; grows well on a block, or in a pot in peat. 



C. odoratissima. — An elegant dwarf cool-house Orchid, 

 growing only about eight or ten inches high, and producing 

 abundance of its white and delicatel}'' scented blooms in 

 winter — a season when white flowers are so desirable. It is 

 from the hills of Madras, and is impatient of heat. 



C. Pandurata. — A curious and distinct-flowering Orchid 

 from Borneo ; grows eighteen inches high, and has flat shining 

 bulbs, from the bottom of which the flower spikes proceed ; 

 sepals and petals pale green ; lip nearly black. This is 

 one of the most interesting plants when in bloom that I 

 have seen. 



C, Plantaginia. — A desirable Indian species, with greenish 

 yellow flowers, having a white lip streaked with brown ; a 

 distinct kind. 



C. speciosa. — A free -flowering plant from Borneo, evergreen, 

 and about eight inches high. The flowers are creamy white, 

 with a dark brown lip, and are produced on a short spike, two 



