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PL. DLXII. 
COCHLIODA MINIATA L. LIND. 
MINIUM COLOURED COCHLIODA. 
COCHLIODA. Vide Lindenia, VI, p. 55. 
Cochlioda miniata. Hybride inter C. Nétzlianam et C. vulcanicam apud naturam producta, 
Cochlioda miniata L. Linp., Sem. Hort., I, p. 39. 
Fywann, at infinite resources the cool house alone offers to the Orchid amateur ! 
q Colours, delicate, soft or brillant; elegance and majesty of forms; abun- 
rons | dance of flowers — all these qualities give to the cool house a charm 
and attraction ever fresh and renewed each season without much trouble or care. 
Among plants belonging to this category which attract most attention by 
the side of Odonioglossum crispum, which they show up remarkably well, must be 
mentioned the Cochliodas, of which C. Nétzliana and C. vulcanica are the best 
known. The colour of the first named is a superb scarlet shaded with vermillion, 
the large substantial flowers closely arranged on the flower-spike producing a 
great effect. The flowers of the other which are larger, more delicate and less 
closely arranged on the spike, have a very graceful appearance and are of 
a beautiful bright carmine rose, the long gracefully arched clusters being very 
ornamental. 
The crossing of these two species should certainly produce an extremely 
interesting result, and would doubtless have been attempted by some raisers. 
But nature herself is the first in the field and, as may be seen from a glance at 
our plate the result is just what one might have expected. 
This natural hybrid appeared last January among the importations of the 
HorTIcuLTurE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels. It is quite intermediate between C. Notz- 
lana and C. vulcanica and as to its hybrid origin there can be no doubt. Its 
flowers are as large as those of the medium sized forms of C. vulcanica, and 
like that species they have oblong lanceolate sepals and petals, the latter being 
broader than the former, while the lateral sepals are also longer and more 
undulate. The colour of these parts are of a glowing red shading to scarlet and 
carmine towards the middle. The broad, somewhat short and deeply three- 
lobed lip is intermediate between that of the two species already mentioned 
and is of a red vermillion colour. The crest is bright yellow as in C. Nétzliana, 
and the wings of the column are carmine rose as in C. vulcanica. 
The plant seems to be very free flowering judging by its first production 
of long gracefully-arched and well-furnished flower spikes. 
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