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greenish yellow, having a white lip streaked with brown, the 

 middle lobe crested with perpendicular fringed plates. — 

 India. 



C. speciosa, Lindley. — A free-flowering evergreen plant, 

 growing about eight inches high. The plant has ovate-oblong 

 ribbed monophyllous pseudobulbs, oblong-lanceolate five to 

 seven-nerved leaves, and short erect penducles bearing two 

 or more flowers, which are nearly four inches in diameter, 

 and are developed at different times of the year, lasting long in 

 bloom. The sepals and petals are pale tawny or ohve green. 

 The lip which is large and broad oblong in form, is very 

 handsome, yellow outside, variously blotched and veined 

 inside with deep crimson or pitch-brown, except the broad 

 apex, which is white, and fringed as well as crested ; two 

 deep crests, nearly as long as the lip, are very prominent 

 along the centre, and copiously fringed with stellated hairs. 

 There are two varieties of this specie?, one of which is far 

 superior to the ordinary form. These plants are very useful, 

 as they are almost always in flower. — Java. 



'FiG.—Bot. Reg., 1846, t. 23; Bot. Mag , t. 4889; Moore, III. Orch. PI., 

 Coelogyne, t. 5 ; Vr. III. Orch., tt. 1, 11 ; Blume, B'ljdr., t. 51. 

 Syn. — Chelonanthera speciosa. 



C. viscosa, R''hb. f. — A rare species, nearly allied to C. 

 flaccida, yet very distinct from that plant. The pseudobulbs 

 are fusiform, bearing dark green leaves, which are tapered 

 towards the base. The sepals and petals are white, and the 

 lip is white, with the side lobes broadly streaked with rich 

 brown. It blooms during summer. — India. 



COLAX, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Vandese, suhtribe Cyrtopcdiese.) 



A small genus, nearly related to Lycaste and Ma.villaria, 

 but separated from them by the subglobose, not ringent 

 flowers, and by the flat spreading segments of the perianth. 

 The group includes two Brazilian species. 



Culture. — The species here named is well deserving of 

 attention. It should be potted in peat and sphagnum with 

 good drainage, and placed in the Cattleya house. 



