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last about six weeks in perfection. This makes a fine plant 

 for exhibition. 



C. hiflorum. — A handsome species from India, in the way of 

 C. barbatum, but with more elegantly variegated foliage ; it 

 grows four inches high. The blossoms are produced on a 

 spike ten inches long, two flowers sometimes appearing on 

 one stem ; the dorsal sepal is very handsome, the upper part 

 being beautiful white, while the other parts of the flower are 

 purplish brown. Blooms in February and March, and will 

 keep six weeks in good condition. 



C. caricimnn. — A very curious and elegant Orchid from 

 Peru. It has a singular grassy appearance, with long creep- 

 ing rhizomes, totally distinct from those of any of the other 

 species. It grows a foot or more in height, the flower- 

 spike rising clear of the foliage, and producing from four to 

 seven flowers, of a pale green colour ; the sepals and petals 

 have a white margin, the ends blotched with rich brown. A 

 very remarkable plant, and well adapted for growing in the 

 cool-house with Odontor/lossums. Known also as C. Peaixei. 



C, caudatum. — This is perhaps one of the most cmious 

 of Orchids, owing to its singularity of character and re- 

 markable beauty ; it has probably created a greater sensation 

 than any other of its genus. A specimen which was flowered 

 by IVIr. Wilson, in the late collection of W. Marshall, Esq., of 

 Enfield, was much the finest I ever witnessed. The plant is an 

 evergreen, and grows from a foot to eighteen inches high. The 

 foliage is of a light green colour. The flower scapes are pro- 

 duced after the growth is completed, and rise from the centre 

 of the plant to a height of from twelve to eighteen inches. 

 The sepals and petals are yellowish, marked with brown ; 

 the long tail-like petals are the most extraordinary part of 

 the plant, often reaching, when fully developed, to the length 

 of thirty inches, and being more deeply coloured towards the 



