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front lobe, are large blotches of rich crimson-purple, while the 

 flat fringed acute-angled side lobes are covered with smaller 

 crimson dots ; a pair of velvety crimson- spotted lamellae 

 occupy the disk. It should be grown in a pot, and kept in a 

 cool house, for which it is well adapted. — Sikkim Himalaya. 

 :Fi(i.—Bot. Mag., t. 6574 ; Batem. 2nd Cent., t. 187. 



C. Huttoni, Hook. jil. — A rare and very remarkable-looking 

 species, growing twelve to eighteen inches high, with elongate 

 ovoid furrowed pseudobulbs, tipped by two oblong obtuse 

 thick leathery leaves, and crowded drooping ten-flowered 

 racemes of flowers, on scapes springing from the base of the 

 pseudobulbs ; they are very singular in aspect, ringent, the 

 sepals yellow, closely tranverse- streaked with broken chocolate 

 lines, the petals wholly of a chocolate brown, and the three- 

 lobed lip greenish yellow, dotted all over with chocolate. 

 Externally the flowers are of an olive green colour. — Java. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5676. 



C Lowianum, Rchb. f. — A very distinct and beautiful 

 species, producing long drooping racemes of from eighteen to 

 twenty flowers. These flowers are larger than in C. ijiganteum, 

 about four inches across ; the sepals and petals yellowish 

 green, with several faint sepia brown lines, and the lip cream- 

 coloured, with the large erect side lobes yellow, and having on 

 the anterior part a large velvety-maroon blotch margined with 

 yellow. It flowers in February and March. This plant was 

 at first thought to be a variety of C. giganteum, but Professor 

 Keichenbach now believes it to be specifically distinct. There 

 are several varieties. — India : Burmah. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 353 ; Gard. Chron., N.s , xi, 404, fig. 56. 



C. Mastersii, Griffith. — A handsome species, much like C. 

 ehurneum in its tufted distichous narrow ensiform leaves, 

 and its manner of growth, but the flowers, which are produced 

 on upright spikes, are very diflerent in shape, white, with a 

 yellow centre, and have the throat and anterior lobe of the 

 lip spotted with rosy purple ; they are almond-scented. This 

 blooms during the winter, and continues long in flower. — 

 India. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 50 ; Lem. Jard. Ft., t. 289 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. 

 t. 78; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 391. 



C. Mastersii album, Rchb. f. — A pretty and chaste variety of 

 the preceding, having pure white flowers, which are deliciously 



