634 oechid-growek's manual. 



according to Prof. Eeichenbacli " an astonishing beauty." 

 Its general colour is a peculiar rose-purple, with a slight 

 greyish hue ; the sepals and petals are of a much darker 

 purple, which in the sepals is a border, and in the petals 

 quite a distinct marking ; there are two similar dark bands 

 converging before the apex, leaving a purple rosy disk, and a 

 similar margin at nearly equal distances. — Venezuela. 



Cattleya resplendens, Bchh. f. — The growth of this plant 



somewhat resembles that of C. gmnidnsa and the flowers 

 those of C. Schilleriana. The dull olive-brown sepals and 

 petals are spotted with purple, as in C. guttata Leopoldii ; 

 the lip is white with warm amethyst keels and small warts 

 of the same colour, its cuneate bilobed stalked mid-lacinia 

 has numerous rough warts in the central part, and many 

 keels on the lateral parts, which are externally toothed, and 

 its side lacinife are much developed and very acuminate. 

 This is supposed to be a natural mule between C. granulosa 

 and C. Schilleriana. — Brazil. 



Coelogyne lactea, Bchh. f. — An interesting species with 

 shoi't thick shining fusiform ribbed pseudobulbs, and short 

 broad leaves of a thick texture. The flowers are produced in 

 short pendulous racemes, and are white with brown veins on 

 the lip and yellow spots on the disk. It flowers in May. — hidia. 



Cypripediiim Godefroyge hemixantMnum, Bchh. f. — A 



curious variety flowered by J. Day, Esq., Tottenham. It 

 has sulphury ochroleucous sepals quite distinct from the 

 normal form. — Cochin China. 



BendroMlini araclinites, Bchh. f. — A very distinct and 

 brilliant novelty, with slender short shining honey-coloured 

 stems, thickened at the articulated apex, and bearing large 

 bright cinnabar red flowers with broad linear blunt sepals 

 and petals, and a broader convolute lip which is ligulate with 

 basilar angles, or sometimes much attenuated in front ; the 

 veins of the lip are of a peculiar hue. — Burinah. 



Dendrobimn erythropogon, Bchh. f. — This plant was im- 

 ported with D. Lunii, and resembles that species in growth. 

 The sepals are of a pallid whitish ochre, partly ochre-coloured, 

 and are deficient of the fine yellow of the typical D. Lowii ; 

 the lip has seven thick crimson keels on the disk of the 

 middle lobe, the two external ones having short crimson 



