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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 are two beauti- 

 ful varieties of this plant in the collection of T. Dawson, Esq., 

 Meadow Bank. 



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

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

 Loddifjesii, and will doubtless require the same treatment as its 

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

 It is a sturdy 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. 



C. citrina. — A beautiful dwarf plant from Mexico, with 

 small oval pseudobuibs and narrow glaucous leaves. The 

 flowers, which are large for the size of the plant, are bright 

 yellow, fragrant, and produced from the top of the bulb, some- 

 times in pairs ; it blooms from May to August, and lasts two 

 weeks in perfection. This is best grown on a block of wood ; 

 the plant should be tied to the block, with the leaves hanging 

 downwards, as it is found growing beneath the branches of 

 trees in its native country. It succeeds best in a cool-house 

 with Odontoglossums. 



C. crispa. — A splendid free-growing Orchid from Brazil, 



