158 ORCHIDS. 
about 6in. long, leathery, channelled, light green, prettily 
blotched and spotted with dark green. The flowers are 
borne singly, on erect scapes about rft. high, The dorsal 
sepal is large and broad, the lower portion being green, 
beautifully striped with purple, the upper half pure white; 
the petals are similar in colour, and ornamented with 
several tufts of black hairs, which are produced from the 
purple shining warts bordering the upper edge; the 
pouch is large, helmet-shaped, and blackish purple in colour. 
The plant blossoms during spring and summer, and lasts 
many weeks in full beauty. It is a native of the Malay 
Peninsula, and was introduced to our gardens in 1840. 
Fig. 40; Botanical Magazine, t. 4234. 
There are about twenty named varieties of this species. 
Many of these closely resemble each other. The most 
distinct are: 
Var. Jiflorum.—Leaves narrower, and flowers smaller, 
than in the type; scape about 1oin. high, usually two- 
flowered. Syn. var. Warnertanum. 
Var. nigrum.—Flowers very large, and much darker than 
in the type. This is sometimes called gzganteum. 
Var. superbum. — Leaves more clearly variegated. 
Flowers distinct in colour, the purple being deeper, and 
the white purer, than in the type. 
C. bellatulum.—A very pretty species, belonging to the 
same group as C. Godefroye, C. concolor, &c., but larger 
than any of them. The largest leaves are leathery, . 
1oin. long, and jin. in width, green, with grey marbling 
above, dotted with purple beneath. Scape 3in. to qin. high, 
bearing one large flower, 3in. in diameter, white, spotted 
all over with purple-black, some of the spots being large; 
the dorsal sepal is almost round, concave, hairy on the 
outside; petals large, almost as broad as long, the lower 
