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developed at difierent times of the year, lasting long in bloom. The sepals and 

 petals are pale tawny or olive-green. The lip, which is large and broadly oblong 

 in form, is very handsome, yellow outside, variously blotched and veined inside 

 with deep crimson or pitch-brown, except the broad apex, which is white, and 

 fringed as well as crested ; two deep crests, nearly as long as the lip, are very 

 prominent along the centre, and copiously fringed with stellated hairs. There 

 are two varieties of this species, one of which is far superior to the ordinary 

 form. These plants are very useful, as they are almost always in flower. — Jama. 



Fia.—Bot. Beg., 1846, t. 23 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4889 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, Coelogyne, t. 5 ; 

 Vriese. 111. Orch., it. 1, 11 ; Blume, Bijdr., t. 51. 



Stn. — Chelonanthera spcoiosa. 



C. TOMENTOSA, Lindley. — Avery distinct species with pendulous racemes ; 

 stem and flower stalks covered with minute reddish-brown hairs. Pseudobulbs 

 ovate 2 to 3 inches long. Flowers about 2 inches across, pale reddish-brown, 

 lip three-lobed, side laciniae white streaked with red. — Borneo. 



Fig.— Veitch's Man. Orch. PI., vi. p. 52. 



C. VISCOSA, Rchb. f. — A rare species, nearly allied to C. flaccida, yet very 

 distinct from that plant. The pseudobulbs are fusiform, bearing dark green 

 leaves, which are tapered towards the base. The sepals and petals are white, 

 and the lip is white, with the side lobes broadly streaked with rich brown. It 

 blooms during summer. — India. 



C L A X , Lindley. 

 (Tribe Vandeae, subtribe Cjrtopodieae.) 

 A small genus, nearly related to Lycaste and Maxillaria, but 

 separated from them by the sub-globose, not ringent flowers, and by the 

 flat spreading segments of the perianth. The group includes two 

 Brazilian species. 



Culture. — The species here named is well deserving of attention. It 

 should be potted in peat and sphagnum with good drainage, and placed 

 in the Cattleya house. 



C. JUGOSUS, Lindley. — A very interesting plant, with elongate-ovoid 

 pseudobulbs 2 to 3 inches long, lanceolate acuminate leaves 6 to 9 inches long, 

 of a dark green, and handsome flowers two or three on a spike, and about 

 2 inches in diameter ; the sepals are pale cream colour, the petals white, with 

 numerous transverse blotches of rich dark chocolate-purple, and the lip white, 

 smaller than the petals, velvety, and covered with fleshy ridges, three-lobed, 

 the lateral lobes rounded erect, minutely dotted with purple, the middle lobe 

 semi-circular, streaked and splashed with dark blackish-purple. — Brazil. 



FlQ.—Bot. Mag., t. B66I ; Vlllvst. liort., 3 s<r., t. 96 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 4] ; 

 V Orchidophile, 1881, p. 36 ; Lindenia, viii. t. 372 ; Tei':c!i's Man. Orch. PL, ix. p. 67. 

 Syn. — Maxillaria jugosa. 



