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C. .CHRISTYANUM, Rchh. f. — A very distinct and curious; species, first 

 flowered by Thos. Christy, Esq., F.L.S., of Sydenham. It has stout fusiform 

 stems, lanoeolate-lorate plaited leaves, and produces strong erect flower spikes 

 containing about a dozen flowers, the sepals and petals of which are of a dull 

 chocolate brown, the lip and column being of a bright green ; it blossoms 

 during the autumn months. — Bra::il. 



FlG.—Orckid Album, ii. t. 83. 



C. CLAVERINGII — See C. macrocakpum. 



C. DECIPIENS, Jlc/t6./. — Inflorescence pendent ; sepals and petals brownish 

 jiurple, spotted with a darker tint of the same colour ; lip cup-shaped, yellow 

 outside, light brown inside, column white furnished with two long spurs.r— 

 Veneziwla. 



'Elti.—Lindenia, iii. t. 144. 



C. DISCOLOR, Lindley. — An old species recently flowered by the Compafnie 

 Continentale d'Horticulture, Grand. Pseudobulbs narrow, tapering, spikes 

 erect, produced from the base, sepals and petals greenish ; lip oup-shapied, 

 yellow, the interior hairy and lined with brown, and having two purplish lateral 

 fringes. — Pernamhuco. 



Fig. — Lindcnia, i. t. 3S. 



C. GALERITUM, Bchh. f. — This species is allied to (J. atratum, Lindley. 

 Pseudobulbs about four inches long, producing pendent spikes of yellowish 

 green flowers; sepals and petals transversely marked with purple brown 

 spots; lip slipper-shaped, yellowish green outside, marked with purplish 

 brown inside, ochre-coloured at the base, purplish brown towards the margins. 

 — South America. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ii. t. G7. 



C. LONGIFOLIUM, Liiidley. — A handsome species discovered by Sir Eobert 

 Schomburgk in 1836 growing on the steins of the Moriclie or Tta palm in 

 British Gruiana. Pseudobulbs fusiform, about nine inches long ; leaves linear- 

 ligulate deep green, about eighteen inches long; sepals and petals broadly 

 oblong, turned backwards, greenish yellow, tipped with crimson ; lip helmet- 

 shaped, having a fringed membrane under the limb rich yellow, tipped with 

 deep lake; this species appears to succeed best on a block of wood.--i)emera>-a. 



Fig. — Sertwm OrclUdaeevm, t. 31 : lirf. Bot., t. 32; Dot. Mag., t. 3019; Orchid 

 Album, X. t. 456 ; Ifook. First Cent., t. 52. 



Syn. — JLmochantJtus longifolius. 



C. MACROCARPUM, Richard. — This is a grand Orchid, and was communi- 

 cated to us by W. Macdonald, Esq., of Perth, who flowered it in 1884; but in 

 common with others of the genus it has not received much attention, though 

 very remarkable in structure. The flowers are about four inches in diameter ; 

 sepals and petals broad, pale yellowish green, densely spotted with purplish 

 brown, reminding one of those of Faphinia grandis, lip deep orange yellow, 



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