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C. FLACCIDA, Liiidl. — This old species was discovered at Noakote in 

 Nepaul, by Dr. Wallich, in the beginning of this century. It produces drooping 

 racemes of flowers from eight to twelve in number. Petals linear-lanceolate 

 white ; lip ovate, three-lobed with three elevated, flexuose lines, white having a 

 bright yellow patch on the disc. Flowers in spring. — NepoMl. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 3318 ; J3ot. Beg., 1841, t. 31 ; Hooltci's First Century Orel. PL, 

 t. 2. 



C. FORSTERMANNI, Rchh. f. — This plant, which appears to be an exceed- 

 ingly shy flftwerer, is described by the late Professor Eeichenbach in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 1887, i. p. 798, as follows: — "I- regard its growth as quite 

 peculiar. The strong rhizome is as thick as a condor's quill, covered with sepia- 

 brown sheaths. There are numerous descending roots. The old bulbs are 

 cylindrato-fusiform, ribbed, usually curved, and marked by the scars of two 

 leaves. Mr. FiJrstermann tells me he saw as many as forty flowers on one 

 peduncle, and that the flowers are snow-white with some yellowish-brown on 

 the disk of the lip. The flowers are equal in size to those of 0. Cumi-ngii. 

 Sepals and petals lanceolate, sepals keeled outside. The cartilaginous ribbed 

 leaves attain 1| feet in length, 3 inches and more in width, and have a very 

 short petiole." — Malay Archipelago {?). 



C. FUSCESCENS, Lindley. — A beautiful species, one of the finest of the 

 genus. The pseudobulbs are elongate, terete, 3 to 4 inches long, the broad 

 oblong plicate leaves in pairs, and the flowers in short, nodding, five- to 

 eight-flowered racemes. The sepals and petals are brownish green, the dorsal 

 sepal broadest, and the lip marked with four cinnamon spots, one on each of the 

 small lateral lobes, and two at the base of the middle lobe, where there are also 

 three elevated lines or crests. It flowers in autumn and winter, and lasts in 

 bloom for a considerable time. — North India ; Burmah, Mouhnein. 



C. FUSCESCENS BRUNNEA, -Lindley. — Sepals and petals lanceolate acum- 

 inate, straw-yellow ; sepals wider than the petals ; lip three-lobed, lateral lobes 

 speckled and margined internally with brown, mid-lobe nearly square, whitish 

 at the edges passing into rich chestnut brown at the base. — Moulmein. 



Fig.— JBot. Mag., t. 549i ; Batem. 2ftd Cent. Oreh. PI., t. 104. 



C. GARDNERIANA, Lindley. — A very distinct species, growing about a foot 

 high, with flask-shaped dark green pseudobulbs, a pair of broadly lanceolate 

 five-nerved leaves, and a long lateral or terminal drooping distichous raceme of 

 peculiar long-petalled half-closed white flowers with a yellow lip, each having 

 a broad brownish bract at its base. It blooms during the winter months, and 

 lasts three or four weeks in good condition. It should be grown in the Cattleya 

 house. — India : Nepaul, Khasya, &c. 



Fig. — OreMd Allni/m,v^. 1. 153 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., vi. p. 73, with tab. (poor) ; Wall. 

 PI. Asiat. Bar., i. t. 38. 



C. GOWERI, Bclib.f. — This is a pretty and delicate species of considerable 

 beauty. The pseudobulbs and leaves resemble those of G. oceUata; the racemes 

 are pendulous, bearing several flowers, the sepals and petals are pure white, 

 and the lip white, with a stain of pale yellow on the disk. It blooms during 

 March and April. — Assam. 



