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speciosa and C. maculata appear to run into each other, 

 in fact, like most other orchids every plant differs in 

 some way from another. When not in flower however 

 the two above-mentioned are exa6lly alike, but they 

 can be easily distinguished from C. macrantha by their 

 narrower leaves and sharp edges to the flutings of their 

 pseudo-bulbs : — 



1. C macrantha ... Flowers very large, cap deep orange, vel- 



vetty, cup pale rose blotched with 

 crimson. 



2. C. speciosa ... Flowers about half the size of the first, 



cap yellow, smooth, cup pale more or 

 less spotted with rose. 



3. C. maculata ... Similar in size to No. 2, with the cap pur- 



ple and other parts of the flower 

 yellow, dotted or blotched with crim- 

 son. 



12. Stanhopea. — Very beautiful plants with extra- 

 ordinary shaped flowers on short stems coming from 

 below conical pseudo-bulbs. The flowers are large, highly 

 scented, waxy in texture, and the leaves ribbed. Four 

 species : — 



1. S. eburnea ... Flowers waxy-white with a touch of violet 



on the slipper-like lip. 



2. S. grandiflora ... Hardly distinguishable from No. i except 



by a little more colour on the lip. 



3. S. insignis ... Flowers pale yellow, spotted with violet. 

 ^ S. oculata ... Flowers creamy white spotted with -lilac, 



lip with two or four blackish eye-like 

 spots. 



13. Peristeria.-— Large plants with slightly compressed, 

 tapering pseudo-bulbs, from the base of which proceed 

 (in the Guiana species) short nodding flower-spikes. 

 The flowers are pale and almost globular in shape, the 

 lip small somewhat resembling a dove nesting within* 



