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on the upper part ; the petals are fully three inches long, 

 spathulate-oblong, greenish yellow, margined with pale pink 

 towards the tips, and heavily blotched with brown in the lower 

 half; and the saccate biauriculate lip is green tinged with 

 pale purple. It blooms during February and March. — Philip- 

 inne Islands : Manilla. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 6296 ; Xenia Orch., iii. t. 212. 



C. Mrsutissimum, Lindley. — A beautifd bold-habited species 

 of the stemless section. It has pale green distichous elongate 

 ligulate carinate leaves, a foot or more in length, and glabrous. 

 The flowers proceed from the centre of the young growths, on 

 green hairy scapes a foot long, the whole back of the flower 

 densely hirsute, the sepals being all ciliated. The dorsal sepal 

 is rhomboidal-cordate, dark purphsh green with a broad green 

 margin ; the petals are large, broadly spathulate, very blunt, 

 ciliated, the narrowed claw-like base undulated, green dotted 

 with purple, the front part wholly purple ; and the lip large, 

 deep green tinged with purple. The blossoms, which often 

 measure six inches across, open in March, April, and May, 

 and last six weeks in perfection. — India : Bhotan, Assam. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4990 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 149; Flore des 

 Serves, t. 1430 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 15 ; Xenia Orch., ii. t. 132; 

 Belg. Hort., vii. 353, with tab. 



C, Hookerse, Rchb.f. — One of the dwarfer stemless section, 

 the leaves of which are most beautifully variegated, being of a 

 bright dark green, finely tessellated with irregular yellowish 

 green spots or bands ; they are broadly oblong-ligulate, and 

 fleshy-coriaceous in texture. The flowers are somewhat 

 deficient in size compared with others, and, if not very showy, 

 are certainly pretty ; the sepals are yellowish with a green 

 centre ; the petals spreading, ciliate, spathulate, the narrow 

 part undulated, green with small purple spots, and the upper 

 part acute, rosy purple ; and the lip is green suffused with dull 

 purplish brown. The staminode is purple with pale margins. 

 — Borneo. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5362; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 123 ; Flore des 

 Serves, t. 1565. 



C. insigne, WalUch. — A well-known good old species of the 

 acaulescent group, furnished with distichous hgulate light 

 green leaves, and producing its solitary flowers on purple 

 hairy scapes during the winter months, lasting six weeks in 

 bloom. The broadly ovate dorsal sepal is greenish below, 



