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Culture. -These plants will do on blocks of wood, but tliey grow 

 much finer in baskets or pots, with peat, moss, and potsherds. All the 

 species require a liberal suppljr of heat and moisture in their growing 

 season, except C. aurea, which we have found to succeed best in the 

 cool-house ; but after they have finished their growth, they should be 

 removed into a cooler house until they begin to grow again, and then be, 

 taken back to the coolest end of the East Indian house. During their 

 season of rest thej^ reqiiire very little water. They are propagated by 

 dividing the plants just as they begin to grow. 



C. AUREA, Liadlcy. — A charming Orchid, producing its flowers on a short 

 spike, generally twice a year. The stems are pendulous sub-clavate, clothed 

 with fuscous scales, the leaves ovate-lanceolate, nervose, undulate, and the 

 blossoms, which grow in drooping racemes, are yellow, the lip being marked 

 with crimson. It flowers at different times of the year, and lasts about a 

 fortnight in beauty. — Vem::uela. 



Fig. — Bot. Reg., 1. 1937 ; Bot. Mug., t. 3617 ; Sookcr's Fiv-it Ciidunj Oi-ch. PI., t. 78 ; 

 Liitdenia, \i. t. 260. 



C. BRACTESCENS, Lindleij. — A fine species, with fusiform fleshy stems, 

 ovate lanceolate plicate leaves, and nodding racemes of waxy flowers, some- 

 times six together, each flower measuring 2 or 3 inches across, and having 

 white sepals and petals, while the lip is yellow inside and white outside, its 

 emarginate pUcate front lobe being marked with crimson lines, and its disk 

 bearing five or seven fleshy lamellae between the erect side lobes. It blooms in 

 April and May ; lasts two or three weeks in perfection, and makes a good show 

 plant. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Beg.. 1841. t. 23 ; Flofe ilci Serves, t. 67.'. : Bot. Mag., i. 5186 ; Batem. 

 2iii! Cent. Oi-eli. PL. t. 138 : Bcv. HoH., 1859, p. 294 ; Bcidiciihachia, i. t. 18 ; Orchid 

 Album, X. t. 446 ; Liiuleiiiu, viii. t. 383. 



C. CHELSONI, Itclib. f. — A very fine hybrid raised from C. Limmingliei 

 probably crossed with C. laevis, which it very much resembles. The flowers are 

 in bold drooping racemes, the sepals and petals nankin-yellow with a blotch of 

 purplish-brown in the upper half, and the lip whitish with the numerous violet- 

 purplish blotches of V. Limmiiighei ; the column is whitish, with many small 

 purplish dots. This form was raised in Messrs. Veitch's Eoyal Exotic Nursery, 

 Chelsea. — Garden hybrid. 



YiG.—Fhiral Mag.. 2 ser., t. 97 (yellow lip) ; rOrchidophiU; 1883, p. 479 ; Veitch's 

 Man. Orch. PL, vi. p.'27. 



C. LAEVIS, Lindleij.— A. beautiful species, in which the fusiform pendent 

 stems are fifteen inches long, producing from the young growths in June 

 pendulous racemes, each bearing eight or more flowers ; the sepals and petals 

 are yellow in the lower, and orange in the upper part, and the lip is yellow 

 spotted and blotched with crimson, the side lobes falcate, and the middle lobe 



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