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variably flowers some two or three weeks later than the pre- 

 ceding, which is a decided advantage, as it prolongs the season 

 of flower, and it also diflers in having the centre of the lip 

 stained a delicate lemon-colour, and not yellow as in the 

 ordinary form of the species. Native of Nepal. 



C. corruc/ata. — This is a very pretty species, and interesting, 

 because one of the cool Orchids from the East Indies ; it is 

 found in the Neilgherry Hills, in Madras, and probably in many 

 other of the hilly districts of India, and will grow freely and 

 bloom with Odontoglossums. It is a free compact-growing 

 plant, producing lovely pure white flowers of considerable 

 size ; the lip is yellow inside, striped with orange ; it should be 

 grown in a pot, with an abundance of drainage. 



C. Cumingii. — A pretty species from Singapore. Sepals 

 and petals white ; lip bright yellow, with white down the 

 centre. It lasts long in beauty. 



C. fuscesens. — A beautiful species from the warm parts of 

 India, and one of the finest of the genus. The pseudobulbs 

 are about three inches long ; leaves in pairs, broadest in the 

 middle, contracted at each end. Sepals and petals white, 

 shaded with yellow ; lip cinnamon in the centre, streaked with 

 orange and edged with white ; it flowers in autumn and winter, 

 and lasts in bloom for a considerable time. 



C. Gardneriana. — A very good species from the Khasia 

 Hills, and which grows about a foot high; the flowers are 

 white tinged with yellow, and produced on a drooping spike. 

 It blooms during the winter months, and lasts three or four 

 weeks in good condition. 



C. Goweri. — This elegant and dehcate species was named 

 and described by Professor Reichenbach in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle in the spring of 1869. The pseudobulbs and leaves 

 resemble those of C. ocellata; the racemes are pendulous, 

 bearing several flowers ; sepals and petals pure white ; lip 



