160 orchid-geower's manual. 



C. DEVONIAN A, Veitch.— This beautiful hybrid, for which we are indebted to' 

 the skill of the lateMr. Dominy, is in growth like Laelia elegans, forming thin terete 

 stems, each bearing two leaves some six or eight inches long. The flowers are 

 upwards of five inches in diameter, and are produced in September ; the sepals 

 and petals are white, tinged with pink, which becomes deeper towards the points, 

 and the lip is deep rosy purple. — Garden hybrid. 



C. DOLOSA, Jtclib.f. — A very pretty dwarf -growing species, with the sub- 

 fusiform stems five or six inches long, the leaves oblong, in pairs, about four 

 inches long and two and a half inches broad ; the flowers are of a beautiful rosy 

 magenta colour, with a yellow disk to the lip, which has the side lobes very much 

 developed. This species is nearly allied to C. Walkeriana, and is sometimes re- 

 garded as a variety of that species, but differs in flowering from the apex of the 

 pseudobulb and not from a leafless bulb, as in G. Walkeriana. — Brazil .- Minas ; 

 Ceraes. 



Fia.—Gard. Cliron., N.S., v. 430, figs. 78, 79. 



C. DOMINGENSIS — See Laeliopsis domijiGensis. 



C. DOMINIANA, Lindley. — ^A beautiful acquisition, obtained as a hybrid be- 

 tween G. labiata and G. amethystina, the latter a form of G. intermedia. In habit 

 it somewhat resembles Laelia elegans, but is less robust. The flowers are six 

 inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are white, delicately shaded with 

 pink, the lip rosy purple, edged with white, and having a deep orange blotch in 

 the throat. — Garden hybrid. 



C. DOMINIANA ALBA, Veitch. — This plant resembles C Dominiamo. in all but 

 the colour of the flowers, in which the sepals and petals are broad, white, faintly 

 shaded with lavender, and the lip is pure white, with a lilac blotch in the 

 centre. — Garden hybrid. 



Fm.— Floral Mag., t. 3G7. 



C. DOMINIANA LUTEA, Veitch. — An elegant variety, in which the flowers 

 have the sepals and petals of a delicate blush, and the lip white in front, suffused 

 with yellow, the disk being yellow, streaked with rose. — Garden hybrid. 



C. DOWIANA, Bateman. — This superb species was imported from Costa Bica 

 in 1864, and flowered the following autumn. It has stout clavate sulcate mono- 

 phyllous stems ; about a foot high, oblong obtuse leaves, and very large flowers, 

 of which the sepals and petals are of a bright nankin colour, suffused on the 

 under sides with crimson, and the lip a rich bright dark crimson-purple, beau- 

 tifully streaked with gold. G. Bowiana is undoubtedly the most gorgeous of its 

 family, bearing spikes of five or six flowers each. We do not find this plant so 

 free-blooming as others, and only a very few people grow it well. We have 

 bloomed fine plants, but have found them best grown in baskets as near the 

 light as possible, at the warmest end of the Cattleya house, and they must have 

 a copious supply of water during the growing season. This is a plant that no 

 collection should lack. — Costa Bica. 



¥m.—J3ot. 3fag., t. 5618 ; Warner, 8d. Orch. PI., ii. t. 27 ; 111. IIoH.. t. 525 ; Flore 

 des Serrrs, tt. 1709—10 ; Ba*<"van, 2nd Cent., t. 191 ; Jenning-i, Orch., t. 33 ; Selg. Sort., 

 1869, tt. 13 — 14 ; Veltch's Mah. Orch. PI., ii. p. 15; Joura. of Ilort., xv. 1887, p. 473, f, 57. 



