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flowers on each raceme, and it remains in beauty for a considerable time. The 

 cool house suits it best. — Peru. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6084 ; L'lll. Hort., 3rd ser., t. 66 ; Batem. Mon. Odont., t. 22. 



Syn. — Mesospinidmm roseum ; Odontoijlossum roseum. 



C. SANQUINEA, Benth. et Hook. — This very pretty plant in habit resembles 

 the smaller Odonioglosimms. The pseudobulbs are oval compressed, clouded 

 with prettily mottled bands of brown, bearing two cuneate ligulate leaves. 

 The flowers come in slender drooping slightly branched racemes, which spring 

 from the base of the bulbs, and bear numerous flowers of a beautiful waxy 

 appearance, bright rose in colour, and are produced in summer and autumn, 

 asting several weeks in perfection. — Feru : Ecuador. 



FlG.—Bot. Mai;., t. 5627 ; Batem. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 196. 



Syn, — Mesospinidiiim sanguincum. 



CO^HLIODA SANGUIKEA 



C. VULCANICA, Benih. et Hooh. — A very pretty species, differing from 

 C. aanguinea in having erect instead of drooping flower spikes. The pseudo- 

 bulbs are ovoid, compressed, and more or less two-edged, with oblong keeled 

 bluntish leaves 3 to 5 inches long, and unilateral racemes of flowers on a slender 

 erect peduncle, the flowers about 2 inches across, of a dark bright rose colour, 

 from 12 to 20 on a spike, and producing a charming effect, since they remain in 

 full beauty for a considerable time ; the lip, which is three-lobed, the side lobes 

 roundish and the middle one emarginate, is in the front part of the same bright 

 rose as the sepals and petals, but becomes paler on the disk, where there is a four- 

 keeled callus. A variety has been recently introduced called grandiflora, which 

 has larger flowers and a greater number of them on the spikes. — Eastern Peru. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6001; Orchid Album, vii. t. 317; IJndenia,iv.t. 1!54 ; Itniie 

 Sort. Beige, 1888, p. 225 (plate). 



Syn. — Mesofpimdium rulcanicum . 



