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C. Dawsoniamim, Bchh. f. — In general appearance this re- 

 sembles a Renanthera. The leaves are arranged in a distichous 

 manner, are hght green in colour, and about six inches long ; 

 and the flowers, which are thick and fleshy, are borne in 

 branched racemes some twenty or more together. The sepals 

 and petals are light yellow, banded with brown, the lip deeper 

 yellow, blotched and streaked with brown, — Moulmein. 



CffiLIA, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Epidendrese, subtribe Eriese.) 



A small genus of epiphytes, the base of whose stems 

 eventually thickens into pseudobulbs. They have narrow 

 elongate plicately venose leaves, and from the base of the 

 bulbs dense racemes of moderate-sized flowers on short erect 

 scapes distinct from the foliage. The four or five known 

 species are natives of the "West Indies, Central America, and 

 Mexico. 



Culture. — These plants do best in pots, in a compost of 

 peat and moss, with a little charcoal added, and should be 

 grown in the Cattleya house. 



C. "bella, Rclih. f. — A very pretty species, furnished with 

 roundish- ovate compressed pseudobulbs, three or four ensiform 

 nervose leaves, and short upright radical scapes bearing from 

 four to seven funnel-shaped fragrant fleshy flowers, of which 

 the sepals and petals are creamy white, broadly tipped with 

 rich magenta, and the lip is yellow, with a rather prominent 

 front lobe. It flowers during the autumn months. — 

 Guatemala. 



Fig. — Leni. Jard. FL, iii. 325 ; Orchid Album, ii. t, 61 ; Bot. Mag., 

 t. 6628. 



Stn. — Bifrenaria bella ; BothriocTiilus bellus, 



C. macrostacliya, Lindley. — An erect-growing distinct 

 species, with rather large and nearly globose pale green 

 glabrous pseudobulbs, which are invested at the base with 

 coarse brown scaly envelopes, and bear at the top about three 

 large lanceolate membranous plicate leaves a foot or more in 

 length, sheathing at the base. From the base of the pseudobulbs 



