140 orchid-gkower's manual. 



C. PORPHYREA, Eclib. /.—This handsome and distinct hybrid has been 

 raised in the collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., at Dorking, and is 

 the result of a cross between lAmatodes labrosa and C. vestita ruhro-oculata. We 

 have not yet seen this novelty, but the late Professor Eeichenbach described the 

 sepals and petals as being of a most exquisite dazzling purple, while the lip is 

 yellowish marked with small purple spots at the base, and on the anterioi' 

 part of a fine purple ; the spur is ochre-coloured. It flowers during the winter 

 months. — Garden hybrid. 



C. REGNIERI, Schh. f. — A very charming plant, introduced by M. Regnier, 

 of Paris. The growth of the pseudobulbs and general appearance of the plant 

 resemble those of C Tximeri, as do also the flowers, but the lip differs in having 

 the middle lobe shorter, web-shaped, and emarginate, instead of deeply parted, 

 and instead of being white with a pink eye, it is wholly rosy pink, which, con- 

 trasting with the white sepals and petals, has a most striking and charming 

 effect. It flowers at the same time as G. Turneri. — Cochin China. 



Fig. — The Garden, 1883, xxiv. p. 46 ; Lindenia, ii. t. 01. 



C. REGNIERI FAUSTA, Bckh. f. — A very fine variety of this novel species, 

 having the deepest and warmest crimson at the base of the lip and on the 

 column of any form of G. Regnieri as yet known, the marking on the disk of the 

 lip forming a three-lobed blotch. It has been recently introduced by us. — 

 Cochin China. 



C. SANDERIANA, Hort. Sander. — A very pretty plant in the way of 

 C. Veitchii, bearing strong many-flowered spikes ; sepals and petals rose- 

 coloured, lip bright rosy crimson, similar in shape to that of U. Regnieri. 

 Flowers during the spring months. — Cochin China. 



C. SANDHURSTIANA, Gosse. — A well-marked and very handsome hybrid, 

 raised by Mr. P. H.- Gosse, of Sandhurst, Torquay, between Limatodes rosea and 

 C . vestita rubro-oculata. It, has much of the character of C. Veitchii, h&mg'oi 

 the same parentage, but is said to be of stronger growth. The peduncles 

 support long racemes (" forty-one grand flowers ") of very beautiful flowers, 

 which are of large size, and of a rich rosy crimson, much deeper than in 

 C. Veitchii, and have besides a beautiful eye-spot on the lip. It is one of the 

 darkest-coloured forms of this set of Calanthes, and likely to have a great future 

 before it ; indeed, Professor Eeichenbach called it a " magnificent " and a' 

 "glorious" thing, and such it was judged to be when exhibited at South 

 Kensington by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., on December 9th, 1884, when it 

 was awarded a 1st Class Certificate. — Garden hybrid. 



C. SANGUINARIA,,JJc7i6. /.— We have not seen this hybrid, but it is thus 

 described by the late Professor Eeichenbach in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1886, 

 XXV. p. 331 :— "The outside of the flowers is pale purple, the inside of deepest 

 dazzling blood red, sepals and lip lighter, with numerous deep blood-red dashes 

 and markings." — Garden hybrid. 



C. SEDENI, Veitch and Rchb. f. — A very handsome hybrid, raised in Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons' establishment by Mr. Seden, aud named in compliment to him. 

 It was raised between C. Veitchii and C. vestita rubro-oculata, and has pseudo- 



