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C. odoratissima, Lindley. — An elegant dwarf cool house 

 Orchid, growing only about eight or ten inches high, and pro- 

 ducing abundance of its white and delicately honey-scented 

 blooms in winter — a season when white flowers are so desir- 

 able. It has ovate wrinkled pseudobulbs an inch long, usually 

 two linear-lanceolate leaves, and filiform peduncles arising 

 from the ap^x of the bulbs, and bearing about three of its 

 pure white flowers. It comes from the north side of the 

 hills of Madras, and is impatient of heat. — South India and 

 Ceylon. 



YiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5462 ; Wight, Icon. PL Ind. Or., tt. 1640, 1641 ; 

 ? Xenia Orch., ii. t. 155 (C. trifida). 



C. pandurata, Lindley. — A curious and very striking 

 Orchid, which when in bloom is one of the most interesting 

 species we know. It grows eighteen inches high, and has 

 oblong-ovate compressed shining pseudobulbs, from the base 

 of which the long drooping flower spikes proceed. The 

 individual flowers are large, with pale green sepals and 

 petals, and a singularly warted greenish yellow lip marked 

 with broad black veins, ending in a broad triangular black 

 blotch towards the front, while on the disk are two deep 

 double warted crests which converge towards the middle and 

 lose themselves in a patch of rugged two-lobed warts. — Borneo. 



FiQ.—Bot. Maq., t. 5084 ; Batem. 2nd Cent, t. 160 ; Fl. des Serves, t. 

 2139 ; Xenia Orch., ii. 1. 121 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 63. 



C. ParisMi, Hooker. — The flowers of this species at first 

 sight resemble those of a miniature C. pandurata, being much 

 smaller in all their parts. The cylindraceo-tetragonal pseudo- 

 bulbs are four to five inches in length and half an inch in 

 diameter ; they are surmounted by two broad ovate-oblong 

 nervose leaves, and the six-flowered raceme is terminal on 

 the pseudobulbs. The flowers are yellowish green, the three- 

 lobed pandurate lip green with a few black spots, and the 

 dilated roundish front lobe undulately crisped ; the disk bears 

 three elevated lines, and there are some elegant fringes on 

 the front part of the lip. It blooms during April and May. — 

 Moulmein. 



Fie.— -Boi. 3fag., t. 5323. 



C. plantaginea, Lindley. — A distinct and desirable species, 

 with elongate terete pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceolate undulate 

 leaves, and pendulous racemes of flowers, which are of a 



