Ct/pripedium.] cxlviii. OECHiDKiE. (J. D. Hooker.) 173 



Assam {Low's and Sander's Golleclors). 



Leaves 6-9 in., dark green, margins more or less waved, beneath purple-spotted 

 near the base. Scape 9-12 in., slender, pubescent ; bract narrow ; flowers about 

 3 in. diam.; dorsal sepal horizontal, sides at tbe base so stoutly reflexed as to 

 appear clawed, white base purple dotted on a green ground, midline purple ; petals 

 shorter than the lip, obtuse, yellow, or olive-green with a red median baud and 

 spots; lip brown, tinged with crimson ; staminode red, edged with white, base 

 contracted into auricle-like folds. 



8. Petals narrower than the dorsal sepal, very long in 0. Parishii, 

 margins bearded or hirsute amd warted.' 



11. C. venustum, Wall, in Sot. Mag. t. 2129 ; Gat. 7023 ; leaves 

 elliptie-obloug or loriform tessellate, scape 1-2-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the ovary, dorsal sepal broadly ovate or cordate, petals linear-oblong 

 bearded sparsely warted, lip subcylindrio reticulate, staminode semi-Innate. 

 Li/ndl. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. 530 ; Soak. JExot. Flor. t. 85 ; Sot. Mag. t. 2129 ; 

 Sot. Beg. t. 788 ; Beichb. Fl. Exot. 100 ; Lodd. Sot. Oal. 585 ; Warner Sel. 

 Orchid, ii. t. 24 ; Veitch Man. 53. C. pardinum, Beichb. f. in Oa/rd. 

 Ghron. 1869, 564, and 1887, i. 382, fig. 76 (pardinum var.) : Flor. Mag. 

 N. S. t. 51. 



Tropical Sikkim Himalaya, alt. 3-4000 ft., /. D. H., Clarke. Silhbt and 

 Assam, Wallich, Griffith, &c. ~ 



Leaves 4-10 in., dark green, marbled with pale green above and dull purple 

 beneath. Scape 6-9 in., pubescent ; flowers 2-2^ in. diam. j dorsal sepal white with 

 dark stripes ; petals spreading, subspathulate, green and purplish, wart^ blackish ; 

 lip yellow green, flushed with pink, and with green reticulations, inflexed lobps 

 yellow nearly closing the mouth. — The var. pardina has larger flowers, whiter 

 sepals, and larger and more scattered wart on the petals. 



12. C< Fairieanum, lAndl. in Gard. Ghron. 1857, 740 f leaves linear- 

 oblong or loriform not tessellate, scape slender 1-fld., bracts half as long as 

 the glandular hairy ovary, dorsal sepal large erect suborbicular obtuse, 

 petals linear-lanceolate falcately upcurved margins crisped bearded and 

 ■with black tubercles, lip slipper-formed pubescent, staminode orbicular 

 with a deep notch and included spur in front. Sot. Mag. t. 5024; Fl. des 

 Serres,t.VlU; Xen. Orchid. ii.lQ%,t.m; Orchid. Alb.'ii. t. 70; Veitch 

 Man. 24, with fig.. 



' ' Assam, Tronson (le.in Sort. Calcutf.). 



Leaves 4-6 in., acute, bright green. Scape 4--6 in., green ; bract green; ovary 

 purple ; flower 2i-3 in. diam. ; dorsal sepal greenish white with broad purple reticu- 

 lated nerves, ciliate, margin waved, keel hairy ; petals yellow- or greenish-white 

 with purple nerves and margins ; lip green with purple veins and spots ; staminode 

 deeply notched and 3-fid in front, side lobes acute incurved, midlobe as long, straight 

 acute. ' 



13. C. superbiens, Beichb. f. in Sonpland. 1855, 227 ; in Algem. 

 Gartenneit, 1856, 323; Xen. Orchid, ii. 9, t. 103; leaves elliptic- oblong 

 tessellate, scape 1-fld., bract much shorter than the ovary, dorsal sepal 

 orbicular-ovate acute, petals broadly linear deflexed fringed with black 

 hairs and warted, lip helmet-shaped, staminode suborbicular notched in 

 front, base 2-lobed. Ga/rtenfl. 1863, 49 ; Warner Sel. Orchid, ii. t. 12 ; Fl. 

 desSerres, t. 1996 ; Veitch Man. 51, with fig. ; Gard. Ghron. 1886, ii. 405, 

 f. 83, 84. 0. Veitchiauum, III. Sort. xii. t. 429 ; JDe Buy it, Les Orchid, 

 ■frontisp. p. 267 ; Bev. Hortic. 1871, &95, fig. 78, 79. 0. barbatum Veitchii, 

 Fl. des Serres, t. 1453. C. barbatum superbum, Selg. Sortie. 1883, 97. 



