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colour with a very dark purplish blotch at the base surrounded 

 by an area of white. — Garden hybrid. 

 Syn. — Preptanthe Sedeni. 



C. Sieboldi, Dene. — An elegant evergreen dwarf-growing 

 cool-house species, with broad dark green plaited leaves, and 

 erect spikes, scarcely taller than the leaves, bearing a loose 

 raceme of large yellow flowers. A distinct and desirable 

 species. — Japan. 

 ¥lG.—Rev. Eort., 1855, 381, with tab. ; Gartenflora, t. 635. 



C. Textori, Miguel. — A very distinct plant, in habit of 

 growth resembling C. veratrifolia. The flowers also resemble 

 those of that species, the sepals and petals creamy white, 

 washed with violet on the petals and column, and also on the 

 base of the lip, where the calli are orange or brick red. It 

 afterwards changes to ochre-colour, excepting the pale lilac 

 base of the sepals and petals and the column. It flowers in 

 June. — / Eastern Islands. 



C. Turneri, Echh.f. — Avery handsome species with jointed 

 pseudobulbs, producing longer flower spikes and larger flowers, 

 and these in greater quantity than in the older and better 

 known C. vestita. The flowers are more compact in shape, 

 the colour being pure white with a deep rose-coloured eye. A 

 peculiar feature of this plant is, that it blooms after the forms 

 of C. vestita are over, which makes it all the more valuable. — 

 Moulmein, ? Java. 



C. Turneri nivalis, Hort. — An elegant variety, with pure 

 white flowers, which are in no way different from those of the 

 typical form save in being entirely destitute of the colour on 

 the lip. It flowers in winter, and is especially valuable for 

 wedding bouquets, or any other purpose for which pure white 

 flowers are wanted. It is a late flowering sort, blooming con- 

 temporaneously with C, Turneri. — Burmah. 



C. YeitcMi, Lindley. — A beautiful mule, raised between 

 Limatodes rosea and Calanthe vestita, by Mr. Dominy. It is. 

 a deciduous plant, and grows like C. vestita. The flower 

 spikes are usually from two to three feet high, gracefully 

 arching ; and the numerous large blossoms are of a rich rose 

 colour. This has proved to be one of the best and most 

 useful of Orchids for winter decoration. The pseudobulbs are 



