180 orchid-grower's manual. 



C. MOSSIAE MOOREANA, TToroe;-.— A beautiful variety, well marked by 

 the clearly-defined narrow white border of its lip, in the way of the var. 

 Marianae ; sepals and petals very pale blush, lip dense violet-rose, moderately 

 stained with orange at the base, and having a narrow even frill of white. 



C. MOSSIAE NALDERIANA, Bclib. /.—This variety is, according to 

 Prof. Eeiohenbach, " an astonishing beauty." Its general colour is a peculiar 

 rose-purple, with a slight greyish hue ; the sepals and petals are of a much darker 

 purple, which in the sepals is a border, and in the petals quite a distinct 

 marking; there are two similar dark bands converging before the apex, leaving 

 a purple rosy disk, and a similar margin at nearly equal distances. — Venezuela. 



C. MOSSIAE NAPOLEONIS, Moore. — A very telling variety from its roseate 

 tinge and the erect habit of its full-sized flowers ; sepals and petals deep blush ; 

 lip large, of a mottled purple in front, and deep-orange at the base, with a broad 

 margin of pale blush. 



C. MOSSIAE PEETERSII, J?c/i&,/.— "The flower of this variety is of a very 

 warm dark lilac-purple colour. The anterior disk of the lip has numerous con- 

 fluent much darker lines. Light purple oblique lines rtin over the sidelaciniae. 

 There is a small space of lightish yellow on each side, between the lines of the 

 anterior disk. It was first flowered in 1885 by Mr. A. A. Peeters, of Brussels." 

 — Eeichenbach in Gardeners' Chronicle, 1888, 3 ser., iv. p. 6. 



Sl'sr. — C. PectersU, Andre. 



C. MOSSIAE POTTSII, Williams. — A most lovely and unique variety of this 

 ever- varying species ; it was bloomed in 1884 by the late Arthur Potts, Esq., of 

 Chester. The flower is about seven inches in diameter ; the petals are broad 

 blush, beautifully feathered in the centre with a broad band of magenta-purple, 

 most irregular in shape ; the sepals are marked in the same way, the lip is 

 large and broad, its anterior part deep magenta-purple, broadly margined with 

 blush white ; throat yellow. 



C. MOSSIAE PURPURATA, Moore. — Large-flowered ; sepals and petals deep 

 blush ; lip large, of a very dense and nearly uniform violet rose, orange at the 

 base, and having a pale frill or margin. 



C. MOSSIAE REINECKIANA, Sort—A. very chaste and rare form, having 

 flowers seven inches in diameter ; sepals and petals of fine substance, pure 

 white ; lip lilac-mauve, beautifully fringed ; throat bright yellow veined with 

 crimson-purple. A most wonderful plant of this was exhibited by G. Hardy, 

 Esq., Timperley, Manchester, at the Whit-week Show, 1893, for the Williams 

 Memorial Medal, which it deservedly gained ; the plant had 16 fully expanded 

 flowers, and was a good variety ; great credit was due to Mr. Holmes, the 

 gardener, for the way in which this plant was cultivated. 



Fia. — ReiclienbaoMa, 2nd ser., vol. ii. t. 52 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 4C1. 



C. MOSSIAE ROTHSCHILDIANA, Mnore.— One of the larger-flowered forms ; 

 sepals and petals blush ; lip very bright orange at the base, with rosy purple 

 lines and splashes over the centre, and a broad irregular white margin ; the 

 petals are finely denticulate. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Oreh. PL, ill. t. 16, fig. 3. 



