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but fearing the -plant might not .be sufficiently strong to allo.w of both flowers 

 being fully developed, one bud was removed at an early stage, the peduncle; 

 being carried forward one-eighth of an inch above. the flower, which is borne in 

 the axil of the next bract.. The pedicel is two and a quarter inches long.v 

 thickened and yellowish green above, whitish below, the whole with a few faint' 

 purplish markings ; the segments narrower and more acute than in C. citrina, 

 and of a dull creamy-white, inclining to flesh white, the petals being a little 

 broader than the sepals. The lip is three-lobed, and equalling the segments 

 in length, the side lobes being large, rounded and obtuse, the colour flesh?tiht, 

 becoming pale purple at the apex ; the front lobe rounded, nearly truncate and 

 minutely api(!ulate, the margin. crisped, undulate, and the colour pale rosy- 

 purplo, a fainter shade of the same extending back along the central keels to 

 near.the base. Thus the flower has the general habit of C. citrina, with the 

 colour approaching that of C. intermedia, the .shape of the segments and lip 

 being tolerably iiitermediate 'between the two. The colours seem to have 

 somewhat neutralised each other, and have not come out as brilliant as could 

 be wished." — Garden hybrid. 



C. CRISPA, Lindley. — A splendid free-growing Orchid with one-leaved sub- 

 cylindi^aceous angulate stems about a foot and a half high, flowering in July , 

 Augufet,.and September; the flowers have the sepals and petals blush white > 



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and the lip white, with a rich crimson stain on the front lobe, wliicli is bcauti-! 

 fully veined. A single spike frequently produces four to seven flowers, which' 

 continue in perfection for two or three weeks. This is a fine plant for exhibition. 



