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many-flowered puberulous scape, furnished with spathaceous 

 lanceolate bracts. The flower spike produces a quantity of 

 flowers, but as far as we have seen but one is fully expanded 

 at a time ; the dorsal sepal is ovate lanceolate, pale yellowish 

 green, faintly streaked with purple, the lower sepal large ; 

 the petals are elongate-lanceolate, several inches long, green, 

 with a red marginal band, bordered with white ; and the lip is 

 oblong-ovoid with a wide mouth, green sufi'used with shining 

 purplish brown. It is not a very showy plant. — Central 

 America : Chiriqui. 



¥lG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5970 ; Florist and Pomologist, 1871, 120, with fig. 



Syn. — C. Eeichenbachianum ; Selenipedium longifolium. 



C. Lowii, Lindley. — A curious and beautiful Orchid of the 

 stemless section. The leaves are obloug-ligulate, slightly 

 notched at the apex, light green. This species produces its 

 flowers on a spike, generally two or more together — some- 

 times eight or ten on native specimens, but we have never 

 seen so many on cultivated plants. It blooms during the 

 spring and summer, and continues in perfection for two or 

 three months if kept in a cool house. The dorsal sepal is 

 ovate, narrowed to the base, downy outside, pale green with 

 a purplish tinge ; the petals are long, spathulate, ciliated, 

 the basal half greenish spotted with purple, wholly purple 

 towards the broader end ; and the lip is large, smooth, bluntly 

 oblong, purplish green, and shining. It grows naturally upon 

 very high trees. — Borneo. 



'FlG.—Gard. Mag. Bot., i; 297, with tab. ; Flore des Serres, t. 375 ; Florist 

 and Pom., 1870, 109, with fig.; Ann. de Gand, 1848, t. 195. 



C. marmoropliyllum, Rchb.f. — A very curious and interest- 

 ing hybrid between C. Hookerce and C. barbatum. Professor 

 Keichenbach describes the leaves as being quite those of G. 

 HookercB. The scape is tall as in that species, purple. The 

 upper sepal has the broad base and transverse shape of that of 

 C. barbatum, and near the margin is washed with purple, in the 

 ■centre with green, all the nerves being green ; the petals are 

 bent down, like those of C. Hookerce, are more purple, and 

 are bordered with bristles, having two warts on each superior 

 limb ; and the lip has the side angles a little more developed 

 than in C. Hookerce, the inflexed margins being covered 

 with shining warts. — Garden hybrid. 



C. Meirax, Rchb.f . — A distinct and beautiful small-growing 

 hybrid of the stemless group, raised by Mr. R. Warner, 



