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flower scape is tall, hairy, bearing three or four large showy- 

 flowers. The dorsal sepal is hairy externally, broadly ovate, 

 white heavily striped with purple ; the petals are five or six 

 inches long, narrow, tapering, greenish streaked with brown 

 at the base, the margins crenulate with dark hairy glandular 

 spots, the anterior parts chocolate and much twisted ; the lip 

 is small, dull greenish yellow. — Philippine Islands. 



¥ia.—Bot. Mag., t. 5508 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 101 ; Flore des 

 Serves, tt. 1760-61 ; Belg. Hort., 1867, t. 6 ; Floral Mag., t. 298 ; Gard. 

 Chron., 1865, 914, fig. a. 



Syn. — C Imvigatum. 



C. politiun, Rchb.f. — A very distinct and richly-coloured 

 hybrid of the acaulescent group, raised by Mr. E. Warner. 

 The leaves are rather large, oblong acute, of a palish green, 

 with numerous dark green chequered markings. The flowers 

 are equal to those of a good C. Argus; the dorsal sepal is ovate, 

 acute, glossy, whitish with a reddish wash, nerves green, with 

 a central bar of deep red from the base upwards ; the petals 

 are linear-oblong, two and a half inches long, glossy, ciliated 

 with black hairs, wine-red, greenish towards the base, 

 where they are marked with several Indian purple warts ; and 

 the lip is narrowly pouch-shaped, suffused in front with 

 purplish red, marked with numerous green nerves, greenish on 

 the sides, the inflexed margins ochre-coloured with brown 

 warts. It is a very free-blooming kind, flowering in January 

 and February. — Garden hybrid. 



'FlQ.— Orchid Album, i. t. 36. 



C. purpuratum, Lindlpy. — A pretty stemless species, with 

 beautifully tessellated oblong acute foliage, and producing its 

 flowers during the winter months. The flowers are large, very 

 much in the way of those of C. harhatuw, but differ in the 

 broad oval-oblong acute, cihated, not verrucose petals, which 

 are brownish purple streaked with deeper lines and closely 

 dotted at the base with dark purple ; the dorsal sepal, which has 

 more pure white at the end, is acuminate, with revolute edges, 

 and is boldly striped with purple on a white ground. Sir 

 W. J. Hooker thinks Dr. Wight's figure quoted below rather 

 belongs to C. barbatum. — Malay Archipelago. 



¥iG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1991 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4901 ; Flore des Serres, 1. 1158 ; 

 Wight, Icon. PI. Ind., v. t. 1760 (?) ; Bart, Parad., i. t. 1. 



C. ReidxenlDacliianiiin. — See Cyprtpedium longifglixtm. 



