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over every three or four weeks, and sponged with clean water 

 of the same temperature as that of the house. They are also 

 subject to the attacks of thrips ; this pest should be kept 

 down by fumigating with tobacco paper. They are propagated 

 by dividing the plants. 



The following list comprises the most beautiful and 

 valuable species and varieties of this splendid genus ; and 

 a collection which embraces these will seldom if ever be 

 without one or more of them in flower. 



C. Aclandise, Lindley. — A charming Orchid, of dwarf habit, 

 the terete striated stems seldom being above six inches high, 

 and crowned by a pair of fleshy oblong elliptical leaves. The 

 flowers are large, olive-green, heavily blotched with dark 

 purple, the lip magenta purple, with darker veins, and the 

 exposed column dark purple. It flowers in June or July, 

 and remains long in perfection. There are some fine specimens 

 of this plant in the country. It is a species apparently subject 

 to much variation, some plants proving very free-flowering, 

 though it is generally rather shy-blooming, and difiicult to 

 cultivate, and is best grown in a small basket, or on a block, 

 and as near the glass as possible. — Brazil. 



YiG.—Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 48 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5039 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., ix. 1, 

 with tab. ; Fl. des Serves, t. 674 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 69; ///. Hoj-t., t. 565 ; 

 Bateman, 2nd Centniry, t. 119. 



C. amabilis, Hort. — A magnificent free-flowering species, 

 growing about eighteen inches high, making two growths in 

 one year, and blooming from the one that is formed in spring, 

 the spikes producing from three to five blossoms, which remain 

 about four weeks in perfection. The sepals and petals are 

 deHcate pink, and the lip is large, of the richest crimson. 

 Undoubtedly the finest of the group represented by C. inter- 

 media, which it closely resembles ; it blooms during the sum- 

 mer months, and makes a fine exhibition plant. Very rare. — 

 Brazil. 



C. Amesiana, Hort. — A hybrid obtained by Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons, and exhibited by them in December, 1883, 

 at one of the meetings of the Boyal Horticultural Society. 

 It is a cross between C. crispa and C. maxima, and has 

 flowers very similar in form to those of C. exoniensis. The 



