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C. masuca grandiflora. A charming variety, with ever- 

 green foliage and flower-spikes from three to four feet high ; 

 continues blooming for three months ; sepals and petals 

 white shading off to lilac, lip bright lilac. One plant of it 

 was shown last year at five shows, proving it to be a fine 

 variety for exhibition, on account of its long continuous 

 blooming season. Very scarce. 



C. Veitchii. A beautiful mule, raised between Limatodes 

 rosea and Galanthe vestita by Mr. Dominy. It is a deciduous 

 plant, and grows like C. vestita ; the flower-spikes are eighteen 

 inches high ; the blossoms a rich rose colour. This will prove 

 a useful species. 



C. veratrifolia. A noble species from India ; its spikes of 

 flowers, which are of a delicate white, frequently attain the 

 height of two or three feet ; it blooms freely from May to 

 July, and will continue blooming for two months. The 

 flowers should be kept free from damp ; if they get wet they 

 are apt to become spotted. This also makes one of the 

 finest exhibition plants we have ; it is a very old plant, but 

 no collection ought to be without it. 



(7. vestita rubra oculata. A charming free-flowering Orchid 

 from Moulmein ; deciduous, and producing, from October ta 

 February, long drooping flower-spikes, which have a white, 

 downy covering, and rise from the base of finely-formed 

 and silvery-green bulbs when the latter are destitute of 

 leaves. The sepals and petals of the flowers are of a delicate 

 white ; the lip is the same, with a blotch of rich crimson in 

 the centre. No collection ought to be without both varie- 

 ties. They are fine plants for winter blooming, the flowers 

 being two inches across. We have a plant of this fine species 

 with thirty spikes, and frequently with from twenty to thirty 

 flowers on each spike, continuing in perfection for three 

 months. 



C. vestita lutea. A variety of the preceding with white 

 sepals and petals, and a lip of the same colour, with a blotch 



