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flowers are not so large. Sepals and petals pure white ; lip 

 of the same colour, with a blotch of yellow in the centre, and 

 rose-coloured spots on each side. 



C. giganteum. — This is not so handsome as the preceding, 

 but it makes a good plant for winter blooming, and is a 

 rather large-growing species. Its brown and purple flowers 

 are produced on long upright spikes during the winter, and 

 last long in perfection, if they are kept dry. Native of Nepal. 



C. Hookerianum. — A fine addition to this family, and well 

 adapted for a cool-house. It is a native of the Sikkim 

 Mountains. In habit of growth similar to C. giganteum, but 

 striped with greenish yellow at the base of the leaves ; flower 

 spikes erect ; blossoms very large, upwards of four inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals green ; lip straw-coloured, deep 

 yellow at the margins, round which are large blotches of rich 

 purple. It should be grown in a pot, and kept in a cool- 

 house. 



C. Huttoni. — A new, rare, and very remarkable -looking 

 species. It grows about twelve or eighteen inches high, and 

 produces long racemes of flowers of a brown colour, spotted 

 and streaked with chocolate, excepting the lip, which is green, 

 with chocolate stripes. It flowered with Messrs.' Veitch in 

 the summer of 1867, and is a native of Java. 



C. Mastersii. — ^A pretty Orchid from India. It is a great 

 deal like C. eburneum in its growth, but the flowers are very 

 diflferent in shape : they are produced on upright spikes, and 

 are white, with a yeUow centre. This plant blooms during 

 the winter, and continues long iu flower. 



C. pendulum. — A very good Orchid from Sylhet. A large- 

 growing plant, with long drooping spikes from one to two 

 feet long ; sepals and petals brown, the lip red, striped 

 with white. It blooms in July or August, and lasts long in 

 beauty. 



