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the lip white tinged with yellow, and spotted with blood-red, 

 formed of two portions, the hypochil or basal part with two 

 large rounded wings, and the front or epichil cordate ovate 

 and jointed on to the hypochil. The column is very long, 

 slender, and arched, enlarged and hooded at the apex. — 

 Costa Plica, Xeic Grenada. 



FlG.—Bof. Mag., t. 4479. 



Syn. — Polycycnis barbata. 



C. cMorocMlon, Klotzsch. — A very interesting species, with 

 the usual fleshy stems and ribbed leaves, the flowers of 

 which are of a yellowish-green colour, having a large bright 

 yellow blotch on the lip ; they are produced in June or July, 

 and last three weeks in good condition if kept dry. — Demerara. 



YlG.—Lindl. Sert. Orch., t. 16 ; Hart, Farad , i. t. 2. 



C. Loddigesii, Lindley, — A very curious Orchid. It has 

 short fusiform stems, covered by the sheathing bases of the dis- 

 tichous broad lanceolate leaves, and produces its large attractive 

 fragrant flowers from the top of the stem in drooping racemes 

 of six or eight together ; they are four inches across, the sepals 

 and petals of a brownish green, the former with darker spots, 

 and the latter spotless, but bearing some resemblance to the 

 expanded wings of a swan ; the trowel-shaped lip is whitish 

 or flesh-coloured, spotted with blood-red. This plant often 

 produces two kinds of flowers on one plant very distinct from 

 each other. It blooms in July and August, and continues in 

 perfection for three weeks. Sir W. J. Hooker compares the 

 long curved column thickened at the end to the inflated throat 

 of the dreaded Cobra de Capella. A desirable species, which 

 ought to be in every collection. — Surinam. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., t. 1742; Bot. Mag..t. 4215; Id., t. 3855 (var. leuco- 

 chilum) ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. 2000 ; Knowlts and Westc, Floral Cab., t. 

 15 ; Hart, Farad., ii. t. 13. 



C. pentadactyloil, Lindley. — This is a curious species with 

 fusiform fleshy stems, and broad plicate leaves. The flowers 

 are very large, in short upright racemes, the colour being 

 yellowish-green, banded transversely with bold blotches of 

 brown. It flowers at difierent times of the year, and lasts 

 long in beauty. — Brazil. 

 'ElG.—Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 22. 



C. Tentricosum, Bateman. — A free-flowering Orchid, with 

 fleshy stems about a foot high, covered by the sheathing 



