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the flower above the foliage. It has two flowers on a stem. It has glau- 

 cous-green leaves, purple beneath, and covered with dark-green markings 

 on the upper side, somewhat like C. veniistian. It is a little plant, very 

 close in habit, distinct from all the related species in having elliptical, blunt 



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petals. The flower is large for so small a plant, being nearly five inches 

 in circumference. Both my plants have shown two flowers on each stem ; 

 but the second blossom develops later, and opens just as the first fails. 



C. barbatum superbum is similar to C. barbatum, but larger and finer. 

 Its leaves are, however, of a lighter green, and more distinctly marked. 

 C. jfavanicum is like C. barbatum superbum in every way. The only differ- 

 ence I can discover is, that there is less white in the upper sepal of C. 

 yavankum. 



C. Maulei is a variety of C. insigne, but an improvement on it. The 

 plant is smaller than the species, and has long, narrow leaves, and flowers 

 two-thirds as large, with green and purple spots. C. Crossii is the name 

 which has been attached by some botanist to a variety of C. barbahim, 

 and under which it has been figured in a Belgian horticultural magazine. 



C. Dayanum is very fine in foliage, its leaves being beautifully mottled 

 with yellow and green. The flowers are in the same way as C. Veitchii, 



