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blossom would be lost. The pseudo-bulbs are oblong or 
almost spheroid, smooth and shining, and apple-green in 
colour, bearing a pair of narrow, leathery, dark green 
leaves. The raceme is somewhat drooping, many-flowered, 
about gin. in length; the blossoms are fragrant, and from 
gin. to 5in. in diameter. The sepals and petals are snow- 
white, the former being broad and wavy, the latter narrower; 
the lip is also white, with a large blotch of rich yellow in 
the middle, the ridges or crest being ornamented with a 
golden fringe, to which the plant owes its specific name. 
The flowers, which are fragrant, are developed along with 
the young growth from Christmas to March, and, if not 
sprinkled with water, will last long in perfection. Cul- 
tivated plants sometimes attain a remarkable size, as many 
as 500 or 600 pseudo-bulbs, bearing upwards of 100 
spikes of snow-white flowers, with foliage of a beautiful 
fresh green, having been counted on one plant. Native of 
Northern India; introduced in 1837. 
Coloured Plate; Fig. 33; Botanical Register, xxvii., t. 57. 
Var. alba has every part of the flower of the purest 
white. 
Var. Chatsworth has large pseudo-bulbs and fine flowers 
of unusual substance. 
Var. Lemontana flowers about a month later than the 
type, and has the blotch on the lip pale citron-yellow. 
Var. maxima has larger flowers than the type. 
C. Dayana.—A most beautiful plant when in flower, but at 
present very rare. The pseudo-bulbs are long pear-shaped, 
with stalked, ovate, pointed leaves, and pendulous spikes, 
2ft. or more in length, bearing numerous flowers, which are 
pale ochre-yellow, with broad stripes of dark brown on the 
side lobes of the lip, and a crescent-shaped band of brown 
on the front. Each flower is nearly 2in. across, the sepals 
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