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with ti narrow orange border, three smaller ocellated spots occurring on the 

 disk; the throat is striped with purplish brown. It flowers in February and 

 Marc:h. — North India. 



ViQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 3769 (starved). 



C. OCELLATA MAXIMA, Bc7i6./.— This variety is, according to the late Prof. 

 Beichenbach, " a great beauty, and is far stronger than the common plant." 

 We can fully endorse this opinion, having distributed the plant, and flowered it 

 on several occasions. Its blossoms are produced on drooping racemes, which 

 sometimes contain as many as eight flowers. The colour is the same as in 

 (7. ocellata, but the lateral blotches on the lip are spread widely apart, and the 

 flowers are larger. The bulbs are much larger than those of C. ocellata, being 

 2 or 8 inches high, and about 3 inches in circumference. It is very sweet- 

 scented, a single plant perfuming a whole house. It flowers during March and 

 April, and lasts a long time in beauty. — India. 



Fig. — Floral Mag.. 2 ser., t. 36.") ; Lindniia, vi. t. 243 ; Juurii. of Hort., 1887, xiv. 

 11. 273, f . 49 ; Veitck's Man. Oreh. PI., vi. p. 45. 



C. OCHRACEA, lAndley. — Avery old species, having pure white very sweet- 

 scented flowers. The pseudobulbs are small, oblong, with two or three lanceo- 

 late leaves, and the flowers grow in erect racemes of about seven or eight 

 together. The lip has two horse-shoe shaped blotches on its disk, which are 

 bright ochraceous-yellow bordered with orange. It may be grown either in a 

 ])ot 6t a basket. — North-East India. 



Fig.— .Bui. Reg., 1846, t. 69 ; Sot. Mag., t. 4661 ; JSatem. 2nd Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 145 ; 

 Lem. Jard. Fl., t. 342 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, Coelogyne, t. 2. 



C. ODORATISSIMA, Lindley. — An elegant dwarf cool-house Orchid, growing 

 only about 8 or 10 inches high, and producing abundance of its white and 

 delicately honey-scented blooms in winter — a season when white flowers are so 

 desirable. It has ovate wrinkled pseudobulbs an inch long, usually two linear- 

 lanceolate leaves, and filiform peduncles arising from the apex of the bulbs, 

 and bearing about three of its pure white flowers. — Soiith India and Ceylon. 



Fia.— Sot. Mag., t. 54G2 ; Wight, lean. PI. Ind. Or., tt. 1640, 1641 ; .' Xeiiia Orcli , 

 ii. t. 155 (C. trifida"). 



C. PANDURATA, Lindley.— A curious arid very striking Orchid, which when 

 in bloom is one of the most interesting species we know. It grows 18 inches 

 high, and has oblong-ovate compressed shining pseudobulbs, from the base 

 of which the long drooping flower spikes proceed. The individual flowers 

 are large, with pale green sepals and petals, and a singularly warted greenish 

 yellow lip marked with broad black veins, ending in a broad triangular black 

 blotch towards the front, while on the disk are two deep double-warted crests, 

 which converge towards the middle and lose themselves in a patch of rugged 

 two-lobed warts. — Borneo. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5084 ; Satem. 2nd. Cent. Orch. PI., t. 160 ; Flore des Serrcs, 

 1-. 2139 ; Xcnia Orch., ii. t. 121 ; Orchid Alium, ii. t. 63 ; Lindi-nia, ii. t. 86 ; Jotir-n. of 

 Hort., 1890, XX. p. 425, f. 62 ; Beichcnbachia, 2nd ser., ii. t. 58 ; Vritch's Man Orch PI 

 vi. p. 47. ■ ■ ■' 



