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spike is produced from the base of the bulbs measuring about 7 inches in length, 

 bearing an umbel of pale purplish-brown flowers, which are also striped and 

 netted with purple. The dorsal sepal is furnished with a series of blackish 

 purple hairs around the edge, and the tips of the petals are also similarly 

 ornamented. Mowers in October. — India, Himalayas. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, yiii. t. 369 ; Bat. Man., t, 7229 ; Gard. Chnm.. Srd so:, 1893, 

 xiv. p. 553, f. 91. • J, : 



C. PAHUDII, Vriese. — This is another very curious and interesting plant. 

 The habit is dwarf, the leaves dark green, the flowers arranged in an umbel, 

 large, reddish-brown, with bright red dots ; the sepals and petals are turned 

 back, giving it a most singular appearance. It should be grown on a block of 

 wood in the Bast Indian house. — Jai-a. 



Fig.— T'r/m', I/!ii.',-t. OrcJi., tt. 3, 11. 



C. PULCHRUM, N. E. Brown. — This pretty species has the united lateral 



sepals of a pale straw yellow, thickly blotched with dull rose. The dorsal sepal 



is hood-shaped with the apex prolonged, into a thread-like tail ; in colour it is 



rosy purple, covered on the inside with minute darker spots. The petals and 



_lip are deep rosy-purple. — Halmahera, Malay Archipelago. 



Fia.—Zindenia, iv. t. ICo ; Z'Tll, Sort., xxxiii. t. 608. 



CLEISOSTOMA, Blume. 

 (^Tribe Vandeae, mhtribe Sarcantheae.) 

 A genus of epiphytal plants, with, leafy stems, clothed with dis- 

 tichous spreading leathery leaves, usually flat, but sometimes terete, and 

 lateral peduncles bearing simple or branched racemes, the flo'yvers for the 

 most part small, and therefore such as are not much esteemed by the 

 majority of Orchid fanciers, but nevertheless there are some of the species 

 ^ which would form ornaments in our collections. Some fifteen species 

 vare described — Indian, Malayan, or Australian. 



Culture. — They require the same treatment as Aerides. 



C. CRASSIFOLIUM, Lindley.— This distinct plant has close-set thick leathery 

 much recurved leaves, resembling those of a Vanda ; it produces its nodding 

 panicles of sea-green, rosy lipped flowers from the axils of the leaves; and 

 although the individual flowers are small it is a charming plant. — Burmah. 



Fid.— Paxt. Fl., Gard. iii. t. 29 ; Lorn. Jard. Fl., t. 397 ; Lindi-nia, iii. t. 139. 



C. DAWSONIANUM, Bchh.f. — In general appearance this resembles a Rewin. 

 libera. The leaves are arranged in a distichous manner, are light green in colour, 

 and about 6 inches long ; and the flowers, which are thick and fleshy, are borne 

 in branched racemes some twenty or more together. The sepals and petals are 

 light yellow, banded with brown, the lip deeper yellow, blotched and streaked 

 with brown. — Mouliiicin. 



