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anterior part traced over with darker veins. It blooms in August and September; 

 There are several variations amongst the seedlings, differing much in colour.^ — 

 Oarden hybrid. 



Fig. — Moral Mag., t. 269 ; M'arner, SjI. Orcli. PI., ii. t. 3G ; Jiiinninijx, Ovcliids, t. 1. 

 SY^.—Laelia exonwnaii. 



C. FAUSTA, Rclih. f. — A charming hybrid, the happy result of a cross 

 between G. exonienais and C. Loddigesii; the latter the- seed-bearing parent. 

 The plant is intermediate in character between the parents. It has flowers of 

 a pretty rosy lilac colour ; the lip white with a large yellow disk, extending the 

 whole length of the throat, tipped with crimson. It blooms about the end of 

 November, and on that account will be very valuable. This was raised in 

 Messrs. Veitch & Sons' nursery at Chelsea. In one variety noticed by Pro- 

 fessor Eeichenbach under the name of radians.thevQ are numerous dark purplish 

 bars or streaks radiating from the centre of the lip, and distributed over the 

 whole of the anterior portion. This variety is represented in the Oardeners' 

 Chronicle (as quoted below) at fig. 67(x. — Garden hybrid. 



Fm.—Gard. Chron., 1873, p. 239, fig. 57. The figure in Floral May., 2 ser., t. 189, 

 giveu under this name, cannot be a true representation of tlie plant. 



C. FLAVEOLA, Bchb. f. — This hybrid was raised by Messrs. Backhouse and 

 Son, York, and is a cross between C intermedia and C. guttata. Professor 

 Eeichenbach describes it in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1888, iv., p. 473, as 

 follows : — " The flower gave me at first the impression of a yellow Laelia elegans. 

 It is equal to a medium-sized flower of that species, and has ligulate, rather 

 acuminate sepals and petals, broader in the middle, all of a pale clear yellow, 

 coming very near to the lightest sulphur yellow. The lip has much the same 

 shape as that of G. guttata. The side laciniae are semi-cordate at the base, 

 oblong, prolonged into a long semi-lanceolate apex equal to the narrow claw 

 of the mid laciriia, which extends into a tranversely oblong, emarginate, 

 crenulate, rugose mid lacinia ; the whole mid lacinia is purple, as on the 

 tops of the white side lacinife, both inside and outside. The column is very 

 plump, white purple at the top." Prof. Eeichenbach states it is also called 

 "hybrida picta," but the figure of that plant in the Floral Magazine for 1881, 

 t. 473, does not agree with the description of the present Tplant.— Garden hybrid, 



C. FLAVIDA See C. luteola. 



C. GASKELLIANA, Bort. — A grand addition to the already numerous group 

 allied to C. labiaia, the well-rounded flowers measuring seven inches across. 

 In its manner of growth it varies considerably, in some cases resembling 

 C. Mossiae and C. Mendelii, and in others partaking of the broad leaf and short 

 bulb of C. Warneri. In the colouring and form of its flowers it also varies con- 

 siderably. The first blossoms of it that were seen in this country much 

 resembled a pale form of G. Mendelii, others resembled the old and rare 

 G. labiata pallida, and we have seen some varieties as dark as C. Warneri: 

 The saddle-shaped blotch on the lip is in some instances a bright deep yellow, 

 approaching to orange, and in others a lemon yellow. It is at any rate a most 



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