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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 Ccelogynes. 



C. media. — A pretty small-growing 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. odoratissrma. — An elegant dwarf cool-house Orchid, grow- 

 ing only about eight or ten inches high, and producing 

 abundance of its white and delicately 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. 2)andurata. — 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 

 or more together, at dilferent times of the year. It lasts long 

 in bloom. There are two vaiieties of this species, one of 



