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It Succeeds best in the Mexican house, as near the glass as 



its native country, 

 possible. — Mexico. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 3742 ; Pcseatorea, t. 9 ; Flore des Scnvs, t. 1689 ; Warner, Sri. 

 Oi-oli. PI., iii. t. 18 ; Hooli. Ut Cent., t. 34 ; Rnchenhachia.. i. t. 20 ; Jonrii. of Hort xv 



1887, p. 565, f. 66 ; VciMi's Man. Orcli. PL, ii. p. 33 ; Orclild Albvw, x. t. 469. 



C. CITRINO- IN- 

 TERMEDIA, Rolfe.— 

 We consider this a 

 wonderful hybrid. It 

 was raised in the col- 

 lection of the late Dr. 

 Harris, Lamberhurst, 

 and is the result of 

 a cross between C. 

 citrina and C. inier- 

 media; it first flower- 

 ed in November, 1887, 

 and is described by 

 Mr. Rolfe in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 



1888, iii. p. 73, as 

 follows : — " It would 

 hardly be correct to 

 describe the hybrid 

 as intermediate be- 

 tween the two pa- 

 rents, in habit at 

 least, for it could not 

 well accomplish this 

 feat without growing 

 sideways, yet it com- 

 bines the characters 

 of both in a very 

 remarkable way. The 

 plant is erect, and 

 has fine pseudobulbs ; 

 the first ovoid, com- i 



pressed, and 1 in. long, the others gradually increasing in size, the fifth being 

 4| ins. long by 1 in. broad and 10 lines thick, with a slender attenuate base ; thus 

 the dimensions arc almost intermediate between the two parents, coupled with 

 the erect habit of C. intermedia. The flowering bulb bears three leaves seven 

 inches long by one and three-eighths of an inch broad, lanceolate linear and 

 sub-obtuse ; the others have but two leaves, which are somewhat smaller. Here, 

 too, the dimensions are almost intermediate, but the three-leaved character 

 clearly comes from C. citrina. On coming to the inflorescence, the habit is 

 precisely that of the male parent, for it arches over from the apex of the 

 pseudobulb, the flower being exactly pendulous and the segment connivent. 

 The peduncle is two and a half inches long, and bears at its apex five acute 

 broad-bised bracts, a quarter of an inch long. It was originally two-flowered, 



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