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crests. It flowers in autumn and winter, and lasts in bloom 

 for a considerable time. — North India : Burmah, Mouhnein. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5494 (var. brunnea) ; Batem. 2nd Cent., t. 104 (var. 

 hrunnea) . 



C. Grardneriana, Liudleij. — A very distinct species, growing 

 about a foot high, with flask-shaped dark green pseudobulbs, 

 a pair of broadly lanceolate five-nerved leaves, and a long 

 lateral or tei-minal drooping distichous raceme of peculiar 

 long-petalled half-closed white flowers with a yellow lip, each 

 having a broad brownish bract at its base. It blooms during 

 the winter months, and lasts three or four weeks in good 

 condition. It should be grown in the Cattleya house. — India : 

 Nepal, Khasya, d-c. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. 153 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vi. 73, with tab. (poor); 

 Wall. PI. Asiat. Ear., i. t. 38. 



C. Goweri, Bchb. f. — This is a pretty and delicate species 

 of considerable beauty. The pseudobulbs and leaves resemble 

 those of C. oceUata; the racemes are pendulous, bearing 

 several flowers, of which the sepals and petals are pure 

 white, and the lip white, with a stain of pale yellow on the 

 disk. It blooms during March and April. — Assam. 



G. Lowii. — See Ccelogyne asperata. 



C. Massangeana, Fidih. f. — This exceedingly handsome and 

 remarkable evergreen species was first flowered by M. D. 

 Massange, Chateau deBaillonville, Marche, Belgium, in honour 

 of whom it has been named. It is both vigorous in growth 

 and free-flowering, producing its blossoms twice a year, and 

 •continuing several weeks in perfection. The pseudobulbs are 

 pear-shaped, three to four inches in height, two-leaved ; and 

 the drooping flower scapes, which are produced from the base 

 of the bulbs, are generally from one and a half to two feet 

 long and bear two dozen or more flowers, of which the sepals 

 and petals are light ochre-yellow, and the lip of a beautiful 

 maroon-brown with bright yellow veins, the middle lobe 

 creamy white at the edge, with a large brown disk, and 

 having three light yellow keels extending from the base to the 

 tip. This plant is best grown in a basket suspended from the 

 roof of the Cattleya house ; and when treated in this way the 

 long drooping spikes have a charming effect. — Assam. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 29; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 373; Gard. Chron., 

 N.S., xvii. 369, with fig. 



