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C. CASSANDRA, JioJ^e.— This hybrid Gattleya was described in the Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 1888, iv., p. 596, by Mr. Eolfe, as follows :— " This is another 

 of Mr. Seden's hybrids, for which I am indebted to Messrs. Veitch & Sons, of 

 Chelsea, from whom I have just received a three-flowered peduncle. It was 

 raised from Gattleya Loddigesii, fertilised with the pollen of one of the forms of 

 Laelia elegans, itself a Laelio- Gattleya, that is, a natural hybrid between the 

 two genera. At present the plant is said to have a stoutish rhizome, as in 

 L. elegans, with seven sub-clavate or sub-cylindrical pseudobulbs, seven to nine 

 inches long, and diphyllous. Leaves oval oblong, spreading, five to six inches 

 long. The flowers measure three and a half inches across, the sepals are acute, 

 the petals twice as broad and more obtuse ; all of a delicate rosy-lilac. The lip 

 is very strongly three-lobed, and has much of the appearance of the mother 

 plant ; the side lobes very large, and the front one constricted at the base into 

 a very short and broad claw, broadly rounded in front, and very much crisped. 

 In colour this front lobe is bright amethyst-purple, while the side lobes are 

 nearly white ; the exceptions being a little rosy-lilac at their apex, and more 

 faintly along the margin behind ; a little rosy-purple running down the centre 

 of the lip, principally along the minute keels ; and the radiating veins of a very 

 pale yellow. The column is much like that of G. Loddigesii in shape, white, 

 with a little rose down the face. Except the front lobe of the lip the flower is 

 very delicately coloured." — Garden hybrid. 



C. CHANIBERLAINIANA, Bchb. /.—This new hybrid Gattleya is a cross 

 between G. guttata Jjeopoldii and G. Dowiana, and is named in honour of 

 the Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P. The growth of the plant 

 resembles that of G. Leopoldii, but is considerably dwarfer. The flowers have 

 brownish purple sepals, rich purple petals, and a lip like C. Leopoldii of a 

 rich purple-magenta; it flowers in the latter part of the summer. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



C. CHOCOENSIS, Linden et Andre. — A very handsome but variable species, 

 with oblong clavate stems, solitary oblong cuneate emarginate leaves, and 

 large fragrant flowers, which are not expanded like the majority of Gattleyas, 

 but somewhat campanulate in shape ; the sepals and petals are large and broad, 

 fringed at the edges, pure white, the lip yellow, stained in front with rich 

 magenta-purple. The different varieties of this species appear to vary 

 considerably in their colour and markings ; thus in some the yellow is much 

 reduced, and the purple tint predominates, even extending over the lateral 

 lobes. The half-closed flowers, however, are always characteristic. — New 

 Grenada; Ghoco. 



Yia.—lll. HoH., 3 ser., t. 120. 



C. CITRINA, Lindley.^-A beautiful dwarf plant, with small ovate pseudo- 

 bulbs, which bear a pair of ligulate-lanceolate glaucous leaves. The flowers, 

 which are large for the size of the plant, are bright yellow, fragrant, and 

 produced from the top of the bulb, sometimes in pairs ; it blooms from May 

 to August, and lasts three or four weeks in perfection. This is best grown 

 on a block of wood ; the plant should be tied to the block, with the leaves 

 hanging downwards, as it is found growing beneath the branches of trees in 



