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Broomfield. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, acute, faintly 

 mottled with transverse markings above, and of a wine-purple 

 beneath. The flowers are medium-sized, on dark purple 

 hairy scapes ; the dorsal sepal is broad ovate, ciliate at the 

 base, blush white with green and purple stripes or nerves ; 

 the petals are linear-oblong, ciliate, purplish crimson with green 

 nerves ; and tlil glossy lip is yellowish green in front, veined 

 and barred with crimson-purple, the point margined with 

 deep wine-purple. It blooms during the winter and spring 

 months, as it completes its growth, and the flowers last six 

 weeks or more in perfection. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fia.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 95. 



C. meianopllthalnilini, Echb. /.—One of Mr. R. Warner's 

 fine hybrids. It is a free-growing, free-blooming variety of 

 the dwarf distichous leaved group, the leaves in this case 

 being of a pale dull green with coarse elongate reticulations 

 of a darker green. The flowers are medium-sized, with green 

 scapes clothed with purpUsh down, the dorsal sepal being 

 whitish flushed with Indian purple towards the base, and 

 having green nerves ; the petals are glossy, linear-oblong, 

 acute, the upper half Indian purple with green nerves, the 

 lower half a much paler tint of the same colour, and having 

 several blackish wart-like spots on the base and margins, 

 which latter are strongly ciliated. It flowers during the winter 

 and spring months. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 109. 



C. microcMlum, Echb. f. — A very interesting and free- 

 growing hybrid between C. niveum and C. Driiryi. The plait 

 is of compact dwarf habit, with ligulate recurving finely tessel- 

 lated leaves. The flowers are broader than those of C. niveum, 

 and have the upper sepal roundish, apiculate, white with a 

 central spotted bar, and slight indications of other lines, 

 several dark cinnamon stripes being evident outside ; the 

 petals are broad roundish oblong, white with a dark crimson 

 stripe down the centre, and several lines of small spots on 

 each side ; and the lip is vevy small, laterally compressed, 

 white veined with pale green. Raised by Mr, Seden. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



FlG.— Veitch, Cat., 1884, 19, with fig. 



C. Morganianum, Echb. f. — This grand hybrid is a cross 

 between C. superbiens and C. Stonei, and at first sight much 



