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leaves, unequally acute at the apex. The flower scapes are stout 

 and hairy, bearing from two to three flowers, of which the 

 dorsal sepal is very broad, roundish and convex, white 

 stained with crimson and striped with deep crimson-purple 

 and green, and the broadly ligulate ciliate petals are much 

 longer than those of C. barbatwn, whitish at the base, with 

 many lai'ge purplish spots throughout, mostly ranged in 

 lines ; the lip is like that of C. barbatum, but much larger, 

 brownish crimson. This variety was raised by Mr. Seden, 

 in Messrs. Veitch's nursery at Chelsea. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fig.— Veitch, Cat., 1880, 10, with fig. ; Garden, xix. 636, with fig. 



C. FairrieaiLlim, Lindley. — A beautiful rare and distinct 

 species of the stemless type. The leaves are distichous, loriform 

 channelled, of a light green colour, and the scapes green and 

 pilose, the flowers produced very freely during the autumn 

 months, and continuing in perfection for six weeks. They are 

 large, with a dark purple ovary ; the broad spreading dorsal 

 sepal greenish white, beautifally veined with dark purple ; the 

 petals, which are oblong-lanceolate, white, striped with green 

 and edged with purple, are peculiarly deflexed and curved like 

 the horns of a bufialo ; and the large lip is brownish green 

 with purple reticulations. This plant is seldom seen doing well, 

 the reason, we believe, being that it usually gets too much heat, 

 for with us it succeeds best in the Cattleya house. — Assmn. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 70 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5024 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. 

 Orch. PI, t. 140; Xenia Orch., ii. t. 133; Flore des Serres, t. 1244; 

 Garden, iii. 431, with fig. ; Id., vi. 69, with fig. ; Id., xxiv. 442, with fig. 



C. Godefroyse, Godefroy.—Thi?, is a very interesting addition 

 to the group represented by C. concolor and C. niveum, and is 

 in some respects intermediate between these two species. The 

 plant, which is acaulescent, has ligulate oblong leaves, from 

 four to eight inches in length, purplish red beneath, and 

 tessellated in a variable manner, with light and dark green on 

 the upper surface. The flowers, which stand each on a hairy 

 purple spotted scape, are very charming, the roundish dorsal 

 sepal and the deflexed oblong ovate bluntly emarginate petals 

 white, heavily spotted with chocolate purple, while the lip 

 is pouch-shaped, barely an inch long, white, marked all over 

 with chocolate-purple spots, those of the outer surface being 

 brighter. — Eastern Asia. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 177 ; Orchidophile, i. 830, with fig. ; Florist 

 and Pomologist, 1884, 37, with fig. ; Veitch, Cat., 1884, 18, with fig. ; Garden, 

 sxv. 396, with fig. 



