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single plant. Many of the varieties here recorded bloomed 

 in the rich collection of Robert Warner, Esq., who makes 

 this species one of his especial favourites, and where we have 

 seen as many as six hundred of these beautiful flowers open 

 together. Many of these forms are very distinct. The best 

 of those here noticed were named and described in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle in 1864 by Mr. Thomas Moore, of the 

 Chelsea Botanic Garden. The varieties are all from the same 

 country as the parent. — La Guayra, 



-piG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3669 ; Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 58 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., sx. 

 630, fig. 89. 



C. M0Ssi86 Alexandrse, Williams. — A very distinct and 

 beautiful variety of the light-coloured section ; sepals and 

 petals pale blush ; lip white, distinctly spotted and veined with 

 bright magenta ; throat rich bright orange marked with 

 crimson-purple. These markings on the white ground give 

 to the flower a most distinct and charming appearance. 



C. Mossiee Arnoldiana, Hon., Sander.— Thh variety was 

 flowered in 1884 by R. P. Percival, Esq., Southport. The lip 

 is rather narrow, the basal part having dark purple stripes, 

 the middle and anterior part, excepting the extreme front, 

 with a light mid line and very fine orange stripes on a lighter 

 ground ; front portion sulphur yellow, with a very few small 

 purple lines. 



C. Mossise aurea, Moore. — A small-flowered variety, with 

 the sepals and petals blush, less spreading than in most other 

 forms ; lip small, strongly marked with buff-orange at the 

 base, extending forward at the front edge, and having broken 

 violet-rose lines in the centre, surrounded by a very broad 

 pale margin, which is almost white inwards, and tinged with 

 blush on the extreme edge. 



C. Mossise aurea grandiflora, Moore. — A large-flowered 

 form ; sepals and petals blush ; lip marked with a bar and a 

 few broken lines of violet-rose, very much stained with orange 

 at the base, and towards the upper part of the margin. 



C. MoSSise aureo-marginata, Moore. — Large-flowered ; se- 

 pals and petals deep blush ; lip with deep violet-rose centre 

 and yellow base, the yellow stain continued so as to form a 

 broad margin to the upper expanded portion of the lip. 



