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C. media, Hort. — A pretty small-growing species, -with 

 short round bulbs, leaves seven inches long, and flowers on 

 spikes ten inches high ; the sepals and petals are creamy 

 white, the lip yellow and brown. It blooms during winter, 

 and lasts in perfection three or four weeks. The plant grows 

 well on a block, or in a pot in fibrous peat. — ? India. 



C. OCellata, Lindley. — A very pretty and desirable species, 

 suitable either for pot or basket culture. The pseudobulbs 

 are ovate and subangulate, furnished with a pair of lanceo- 

 late leaves. The flowers, which are produced in di'ooping 

 racemes from the apex of the bulbs, are pure white with the 

 exception of the lip, which has on each lateral lobe a large 

 ocellated yellow spot, margined with a narrow orange border, 

 three smaller ocellated spots occurring on the disk ; the throat 

 is striped with purplish brown. It flowers in February and 

 March. — North India. 



Ylg.—BoL Mag., t. 37G0 (starved). 



C. OCellata maxima, Bchh. f. — This variety is, according to 

 Professor Reichenbach, " a great beauty, and is far stronger 

 than the common plant." We can fully endorse this opinion, 

 having distributed the plant, and flowered it on several 

 occasions. Its blossoms are produced on drooping racemes, 

 which sometimes contain as many as eight flowers. The 

 colour is the same as in C. ocellata, but the lateral blotches 

 on the lip are spread widely apart, and the flowers are larger. 

 The bulbs are much larger than those of C. ocellata, being 

 two or three inches high, and about three inches in circum- 

 ference. It is very sweet-scented, a single plant perfuming 

 a whole house. It flowers during March and April, and lasts 

 a long time in beauty. — India. 



¥lG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 365. 



C. OCliracea, Lindley. — A very old species, having pure 

 white very sweet-scented flowers. The pseudobulbs are small, 

 oblong, with two or three lanceolate leaves, and the flowers 

 grow in erect racemes of about seven or eight together. The 

 lip has two horse-shoe shaped blotches on its disk, which are 

 bright ochraceous-yellow bordered with orange. It may be 

 grown either in a pot or a basket. — North-East India. 



YiG —Bot. Reg., 1846, t. 69 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4661 ; Baiem. 2tid Cent., t. 

 145 ; J.em. Jard. Ft., t. 342 : Moore, III. Orch. PL, Coelogyne, t. 2. 



