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as at this season they loose then- roots. They require to 

 be repotted iu spring, the best time for which is just as they 

 begin to start into growth. These plants are very much 

 subject to the brown and white scale, which should be diligently 

 sought for and destroyed, as if they ai'e allowed to accumulate 

 the plants will not thrive. They are propagated by sepa- 

 rating the bulbs. The following are the most beautiful of the 

 species. 



C. bella, Bclth. f. — A distinct hybrid, which, as Professor 

 Reichenbach remarks, deserves an honourable place amongst 

 these useful and ornamental plants which do so much to 

 enliven our dull, short winter days. It was raised in Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons' nursery, the parents being C. Turneri and C. 

 Veitchii, the latter species being the father. The pseudobulbs 

 resemble those of C. vestita. The flowers are produced in 

 long arching racemes, and are as large as those of C. Tur- 

 neri ; the sepals white, the petals of a delicate blush, and 

 the broad deeply cleft four-lobed lip of a delicate blush-pink, 

 with an intense carmine crimson blotch surrounded by a zone 

 of white, the column also being of a deep crimson ; the spur 

 is pale yellow. It received a Ist-class Certificate at South 

 Kensington in December, 1881. — Garden hybrid. 



C. curculigoides, Lindley. — This is an extremely rare and 

 beautiful species which we have not for a long time seen in 

 flower. The leaves are large, evergreen, and plaited. The 

 flow^er spike is erect, bearing a head of bloom similar to that 

 of C. veriitrifolia, but the flowers, instead of being white as in 

 that species, are of a beautiful orange yellow, and are pro- 

 duced in summer and autumn. — Malacca, Fenang, Smgapore, 

 Java. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg , 1847, t. 8 ; But. May., t. 6104 ; Breda, Orch. Jav., t. 7 ; 

 Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 349. 



C. Domillii, Lindley. — A good and distinct hybrid, which 

 grows in the same way as C. Masiica. The sepals and petals 

 are lilac, the lip deep purple. It is the first of the hybrid 

 Orchids raised in this country, and its production is due to Mr. 

 Dominy, who obtained it as a cross between C. Masuca and C. 

 furcata. It is a fine free-blooming plant. The seeds were 



