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frequently attain the height of two or three feet ; it blooms freely from May to 

 July, and will continue blooming for two months. The flowers should be kept 



free from damp, for if they get wet 

 they are apt to become spotted. 

 This makes one of the finest of 

 exhibition plants ; it is a very old 

 species, but no collection should 

 be without it. — Ceylon; India; 

 Australia. 



Fig,.— Sot. Meg., t. 720 : Griff. 

 Icon., t. 283, fig. i ; Bot. Mag., t. 2615 ; 

 Loddiges, Sot. Cab., t. 958 ; Hoolter 

 \st Cent. Orch. PI., t. 93 ; Warner's 

 Select Orch. PI., iii. t. 35 ; Linden-ia, 

 vi. t. 252; YeitcKs Man. Orch. PI., 

 vi. p. 69. 



C. VERATRIFOLIA MACRO- 

 LOBA, RcM. /.—This is a great 

 improvement on C. veratrifolid, 

 having the flowers much larger 

 in size and of great substance, 

 pure white, the basilar lobe ex- 

 ceedingly broad, with the lateral 

 calli much developed ; it flowers 

 in May and June. —Imported by 

 us from the Pacific Islands. 



C. VERATRIFOLIA REGNIERI, Echb. /.—A variety differing from the typo 

 in having an ochre-coloured lip. 



C. VESTITA, Lindley.—A. de- 

 ciduous species of great beauty, and 

 exceedingly valuable for decorative 

 purposes. It has large squarish 

 silvery grey pseudobulbs, broadly 

 lanceolate nervose leaves, which 

 grow up and become matured after 

 the flowering is over, and tall radical 

 scapes of charming creamy white 

 flowers, which in some forms have a 

 coloured spot on the base of the lip. 

 The forms which usually represent 

 the type in collections are those 

 named luieo-oculata and ruiro-ocii- 

 laia, which are more fully described 

 below. No collection should be with- 

 out the varieties of this plant, which 

 are all such fine subjects for winter 

 blooming, and so useful for cutting 

 for room decoration, that One cannot 

 have too many of them. We have calakthe vestita. (Natural size.) 



OALAKTHE VERATRIFOLIA. 



