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stOHiffl and leaves of PhaUenopsis SehiUerianum, or 

 nearly so.'' Summer months. Borneo. 



C. insigne. — This fine old species still maintains 

 its place in our plant-houses, notwithstanding the 

 numerous species and hybrids introduced daring the 

 past few years. LeaTes ligulate, thick and fleshy, 

 pale groen ; scape longer than the leaves ; flowers 

 lai^, solitary ; dorseil sepal greenish-yellow ; the 

 upex white and spotted with hrownish-purple ; 

 petals green, suffused with brown, dotted towards 

 the base with pnrplish-brown ; lip large, tawny- 

 oiange or yellow. The variety Mauki has a very 

 broad dorsal sepal, the largest hsilf of which is pure 

 white to the apex ; the basal balf is spotted with 

 purple. Cool end of the Mexican division. Its 

 flowers are produced during winter, and last several 

 weeks in full beanty. Nepaul and Sylhet. 



C. lavigatufn. — ^A fine but very slow-growing 

 kind ; the leaves are ligulate, thick and fleshy, 

 nerveless, and bright shining green ; scape double 

 the length of the leaves, three to five-flowered; 

 sepals large, broadly-ovate, white, the dorsal one 

 being striped with luroad lines of purplish-brown 

 irom base to apex; the coalescing lateral ones are 

 striped with green; petals lengthened out into 

 twisted fail-like appendages, some six inches in 

 length and a quarter of an inch in breadth, blotched 

 with brownish-purple towards the base on the upper 

 edge ; white or greenish-yellow, changing to choco- 

 late, for two-thirds of their length; lip small, nar- 

 row-oblong, uniform pale yellow. Mr. Bat«man, in 

 recording the discovery of this fine species, writes 

 thus : " Mr. John Gk>nld Veitch foind C. Latigatum 

 established upon the roots of the well-known Vanda 

 Batemanii, to obtain which was one main object of 

 his voyage, though he sought for it long in vain, 

 and had almost begun to despair of ever meeting 

 with it, when running his boat one day ashore in 

 the bay of a small island, he was delighted and as- 

 tonished to find the rocks by the coast covered with 

 huge masses of the plant of which he was in quest." 

 Spring and early summer. Philippine Islands. 



C Zaicremiatium. — This fine plant, belongs to the 

 barbatum group. The leaves are oblong-acnminate, 

 dark green, splendidly tesselated with yellowish- 

 green; the scape is sometimes two-flowered; the 

 flowers resemble the grandijhrum variety of barbatum 

 in some respects ; the dorsal sepal is larger, white, 

 .striped from base to apes with broad purple lines ; 

 the petals are fringed round the edges with long 

 dark hairs, with numerous wart-like spots on both 

 mai^ns; lip large, duU purple. Spring and early 

 summer. Borneo. 



C. Lowii. — Leaves oblong-Ugulate, a foot or more 

 long, some two inches broad, and plain duU green ; 

 scape erect, much larger than the leaves, two to five- 



flowered ; flowers large and showy ; dorsal sepal 

 pale green; petals long, spathulate towards tne 

 ends, where they are of a uniform purple ; greenish 

 towards the base, and marked with large blotches of 

 purple, and fringed round the edges with short 

 hairs; lip oblong, large and smooth, brownish- 

 purple. Summer months. Jungles of Borneo. 



C. niveum. — This is a dwarf and compact plant, 

 and one of the most chaste and beautiful of the 

 whole ^mily. Leaves oblong-obtuse, and coria- 

 ceous in texture, about six inches long, dark green, 

 streaked and tesselated with silvery-white and light 

 green ; the under side dull reddish-purple ; scape 

 usually one-flowered, but sometimes it bears two 

 pure snowy-white flowers, upwards of three inches 

 and a half in diameter ; in some varieties the sepals 

 and petals are freckled with, purple and cinnamon 

 dots. Spring and early summer. Tambelau 

 Islands, Straits of Malacca. 



C. Farishii. — A very distinct species, nearly allied 

 to the very fine C. Lavigatum, although not so 

 showy. Leaves eight to ten inches long, and up- 

 wards of two inches broad ; strap-shaped, bifid at the 

 apex, dark shiny green above, paler below ; scape 

 more than twice as long as the leaves, bearing three 

 to eight of its long - tailed flowers ; dorsal sepal 

 somewhat ovate, acute, apple-green ; petals upwarus 

 of five inches long, twisted, upper part greenish- 

 white, blotched with purple, and ornamented on 

 the edges with a few hairy purple warts ; lower part 

 of petals dull vinous purple, edged with green ; lip 

 long and narrow, in some instances purplish, in 

 others greenish-purple and white. Summer months. 

 Mountains of Moulmein. 



C. Roezlii. — ^A very strong-growing plant, belong- 

 ing like eaudatum to the Selenipediums of Eeichenbach. 

 The leaves are upwards of two feet long and two 

 inches broad, ligulate-acuminate, deep green on the 

 upper side, paler below ; scape one to three feet 

 high ; it continues to grow and produce flowers for a 

 long time, but there are seldom more than one or 

 two flowers open at once on the same scape ; sepals 

 yellowish, sufiused with rosy-purple and green ; 

 petals long and narrow, spreading : in some varie- 

 ties ro8j--purple, in others yellowish-green, with 

 reddish-purple margins ; lip very long, yellowish, 

 freckled at the base with dots of red. It blooms 

 nearly all the year round. Summer in Peruvian 

 House ; winter in Brazilian House. Andes of Choco, 

 Xew Grenada. 



C. Schlimii. — This pretty little species is found 

 growing in cool wet places. Leaves eight to twelve 

 inches long, ligulate-acute, leathery, deep green ; 

 scape many-flowered: flowers two inches in dia- 

 meter; sepals ovate-obtuse, white, tinged with 

 green ; petals a little larger, pure white, stained and 



