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if it were an intermediate form between C. labiata and C. 

 MossicB. It grows a foot or more bigh, tbe leaves being of a 

 dark green colour, and of unusual tbickness. Tbe very large 

 flowers are produced in clusters of tbree or four, and are as 

 mucb as six or seven incbes in diameter ; tbe sepals and petals 

 • delicate purplisb rose ; tbe lip large, its upper part straw colour 

 or yellow, tbe rest being of a beautiful deep roseate bue, and 

 fringed at tbe margin. Tbe flowers are of good substance, 

 and consequently last a long time in perfection. It is one of 

 tbe grandest of its class, and is beautifully figured in Mr. 

 Warner's splendid volume, quoted below. — Supposed to be 

 from Brazil. 



'Fm.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., i. 1. 16. 



C. Devoniana, Veitch. — Tbis beautiful bybrid, for wbicb we 

 are indebted to tbe skill of Mr. Dominy, is in growtb like 

 L(Blia elegans, forming tbin terete stems, eacb bearing 

 two leaves some six or eigbt incbes long. Tbe flowers are 

 upwards of five incbes in diameter, and are produced in Sep- 

 tember ; tbe sepals and petals are wbite, tinged witb pink, 

 "whicb becomes deeper towards tbe points, and tbe lip is 

 deep rosy purple. — Garden hybrid. 



C. dolosa, Pichh. f. — A very pretty dwarf-growing species, 

 witb tbe subfusiform stems five or six incbes long, tbe leaves 

 oblong, in pairs, about four incbes long and two and a balf 

 incbes broad ; tbe flowers are of a beautiful rosy magenta 

 colour, witb a yellow disk to tbe lip, wbicb bas tbe side lobes 

 very mucb developed. Tbis species is nearly allied to C. 

 Walkeriana, and is sometimes regarded as a variety of tbat 

 species, but differs in flowering from tbe apex of tbe 

 pseudobulb and not from a leafless bulb, as in C. Walkeriana. 

 — Brazil: Minas. 



YlG.— Gard. Chron., N.S., t. 430, figs. 78, 79. 



C. Dominiana, Lindley.—A beautiful acquisition, obtained as 

 a bybrid between C. labiata and C. amethystina, tbe latter a 

 form of C. intermedia. In babit it somewbat resembles Lalia 

 elegans, but is less robust. Tbe flowers are six incbes in 

 diameter. Tbe sepals and petals are wbite, delicately sbaded 

 witb pink, tbe lip rosy purple, edged witb wbite, and baving 

 a deep orange blotcb'in tbe ihros^i.— Garden hybrid. 



C. Dominiana alba, Veitch. — Tbis plant resembles C. Domi- 

 niana in all but tbe colour of tbe flowers, in wbicb tbe sepals 



