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densely spotted with brown, green on the lower portion of the outside ; flowers 

 iA June. There are many varieties of this plant. — Tropical America, east of the 

 Andes. 



Tia.—Sot. Mag., t. 2259 ; Id., t. 3329 (tridentatum) ; Sot. Reg., t. 840 ; Sooh Ex. 

 M., tt. 91 — 2 ; Lodd. Bot. Cab., t. I'Sii (Claveringii) ; L' Illustration SoHlcole, xxxiii. t. 

 669. 



Stn. — C. tridentatum ; C. Claveringii. 



C. MACROCARPUM CHRYSANTHUM, Linden et Bodigas.— This variety 

 was first flowered by Madame E. Gribez, of Sens, France, in 1888 ; it differs from 

 the type in having the perianth bright yellow instead of greenish yellow. — 

 South America. 



Fig. — Lindenia, v. t. 197. 



C. PILEATUM, Echh.f. — According to the late Professor Reichenbach, this 

 is a curious large-flowered species, with a broad white lip, reminding one of 

 Mormodes luxaium, "sepals narrow, large, ligulate acute, light reddish. I am, 

 however, by no means sure whether the colour is natural or a consequence of 

 withering. Petals broad, oblong-acute, white; lip a wide nearly triangular 

 obtusangled expansion, descending at the base into a blunt cone. Column white 

 with a very long apicular beak, and two well-developed oirrhi." — Gard. Chron. 

 1886, xxvi. p. 616. 



C. PULCHRUM, N. E. Brown. — Pseudobulbs fusiform, inflorescence pen- 

 dent, sepals and petals yellow, transversely barred and spotted with reddish 



brown ; lip ochre yellow, sack- 

 shaped. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Zindenia, iii. t. 120. 



C. RODIGASIANUM, Bolfe.— 

 A distinct and pretty species 

 with thick fusiform pseudobulbs 

 and sub-erect spikes one foot 

 long ; flowers three inches across ; 

 sepals green outside, spotted with 

 dark purple brown, inside almost 

 wholly purple brown ; petals green 

 inside and outside spotted with 

 dark purple brown ; lip greenish 

 yellow covered with purple brown 

 spots. Flowers produced in sum- 

 mer. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Lindenia, vi. t. 259. 



C. SACCATUM, itTCd^e?/.— An 

 old and well-known species de- 

 scribed as far back as 1840. 

 Peduncle twelve to fifteen inches high, bearing seven to eight flowers about 

 four inches in diameter ; sepals lajjceolate, equal, spreading, inside deep purple 



CATASETBM SACOATDM. 



