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Nursery at Upper Holloway, and in October of the same year a 

 flowering plant was exhibited before the Royal Horticultural 

 Society by Mr Fairrie, of Aigburth, Liverpool. Dr Lindley 

 described the species and named it after Mr Fairrie. It was 

 supposed that all the plants thus represented had been imported 

 from Assam and offered with other Orchids at one of the sales at 

 Stevens' Rooms. It is also stated that M, Van Houtte received 

 some plants from Bhotan. In 1880 the Messrs Veitch exhibited 

 a plant before the Royal Horticultural Society and gained a First 

 Class Certificate for it. From that time onwards practically nothing 

 was heard of C. Fairrieanum until almost half a century had 

 elapsed since its introduction, and then, in 1905, some plants were 

 sent to the Calcutta Botanic Gardens, and others eventually 

 reached Kew. Many were the rumours concerning a re-discovery 

 of C. Fairrieanum, and the Orchid world was in a state of excite- 

 ment. Later in the year Messrs Sander and Sons, St Albans, sold 

 plants privately, and over a hundred were sold in the auction 

 rooms in Cheapside. The Kew plants flowered, and in the 

 Autumn flowering plants were exhibited in London and all doubt 

 as to the identity of the plant was at rest. The long lost Orchid 

 was re-discovered by Mr G. S. Searight, who found it high up in 

 the valley of the Torsa River, in the Chumbi district of Western 

 Bhotan. Wherever C. insigne is well grown there should be no 

 difficulty in managing C. Fairrieanum under similar treatment. 

 C.vexillarium, C. Juno, C. Arthurianum, C. Reginay C. Schrceder'i^ 

 C. Niobe, and C. Edivardii are a few of the pretty hybrids 

 descended from C. Fairrieanum, while there are numerous 

 secondary hybrids of considerable garden value. 



C. GoDEFROY^ is a beautiful, low-growing Orchid inter- 

 mediate between C. Tiiveum and C. concolor, and probably all 

 three are but geographical forms of one species. Mr C. Curtis, 



