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C. MOSSIAE ARNOLDIANA.jffoct.&iracie)-.— This varietj- was flowered in 1884 

 bj- the late E. P. Percival, Esq., Southport. The lip is rather narrow, the basal 

 part having dark purple stripes, the middle and anterior part, excepting the 

 extreme front, with a light mid line and very fine orange stripes on a lighter 

 ground ; front portion sulphur yellow, with a very few small purple lines. 



C. MOSSIAE AUREA, Moore. — ^A small-flowered variety, with the sepals and 

 petals blush, less spreading than in most other forms ; lip small, strongly 

 marked with buff-orange at the base, extending forward at the front edge, and 

 having broken violet-rose lines in the centre, surrounded by a very broad pale 

 margin, which is almost white inwards, and tinged with blush on the extreme 

 edge. 



C. MOSSIAE AUREA GRANDIFLORA, Moore.— A. large-flowered form ; sepals 

 and petals blush ; lip marked with a bar and a few broken lines of violet-rose, 

 very much stained with orange at the base, and towards the upper part of the 

 margin. 



FjC— Orchid Album, vii. t. 289. 



C. MOSSIAE AUREO-MARGINATA, J/oore.— Large-flowered; sepals and petals 

 deep blush; lip with deep violet-rose centre and yellow base, the yellow stain 

 continued so as to form a broad margin to the upper expanded portion of 

 the lip. 



C. MOSSIAE BLAKEI, Moore. — Sepals and petals deep blush, the latter frilled 

 towards the points ; lip orange-buff at the base, and mottled violet-rose in front, 

 the markings passing out nearly to the edge, so that there is no sharply-defined 

 pale frill. 



C. MOSSIAE BOUSIESIANA, Lind. et JJodigrns.— A variety with the sepals and 

 petals transversely veined and marbled with rosy purple, named in honour of 

 M. Le Comte de Bousies, a great Belgian Orchid amateur. 



FlO. — Lindeaia, iv, t. 185. 



C. MOSSIAE COMPLANATA, Moore. — A large-flowered variety, remarkable 

 for the almost total absence of frilliness on the petals, and especially on the lip ; 

 sepals and petals rather deep blush ; lip broad and spread out at the apex, a 

 good deal stained with orange at the base, but faintly mottled and veined with 

 purple over the centre, leaving a broad pale blush-tinted edge. 



C. MOSSIAE CONSPICUA, Moore. — Large-flowered; sepals and petals blush; 

 lip richly marked with violet-rose, dashed with orange at the base, and having 

 an irregular broadish pallid border; it blooms in great profusion. 



C. MOSSIAE " COURTAULDS' VAR.," Reichh. /.—Prof. Eeichenbach thus 

 describes this var. in the Gard. Chron., 1888, iii. p. 681 : — "This is a wonderfully 

 grand thing. The sepals are like those of C. Moasiae, Nalder's var., rose with 

 dark purple margin. The fine petals have a nearly whitish central mid-area and 

 much darker radiating partly-conflaent lines on the margins. The lip has its 



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