218 orchid-groweh's manual. 



of them large-growing, with short pseudobulbs, from which the 

 leaves and flowers proceed. The flowers are large, loosely racemose, the 

 racemes being often long and pendulous. Some thirty species are 

 described, chiefly from India, the Malayan Archipelago, and China, but 

 a few outlying species occur in Africa, Australia, New Caledonia, and 

 Japan. 



Culture. — They succeed best grown in the Cattleya house, and are 

 generally free-growing plants, some of them producing pendulous spikes 

 as much as 2 to 3 feet long. They require plenty of pot room, as 

 they send out thick fleshy roots very freely. We grow them in rough 

 fibrous peat and loam, with good drainage, allowing them a liberal 

 quantity of water at the roots during their period of growth, but less 

 afterwards. Propagation is effected by dividing the pseudobulbs. 



C. AFFINE, Griffith. — This species is of recent introduction, and flowers 

 when in a very small state. The growth is somewhat in the way of that of 

 C. ehurneum, but the leaves are considerably broader. The flowers are deli- 

 ciously scented, and are produced in racemes upon upright scapes ; they are 

 intermediate in size between those of C. ehurneum and C. Mastersii ; the sepals 

 and petals white, the lip white, blotched with crimson-purple on its anterior 

 part, and the lower part of the throat also crimson-purple ; crests golden- 

 yellow. — India : Assam and Khasya. 



Fia. -OrcJiia Album, iii.t.HO; Floral Mag ., 2nd sci:, t. SiS ; Griff. JVotul. ,ui.t.2dl. 



C. BAMBUSAEFOLIUM.— See Aktjndina bambusaeiolia. 



C. DAYANUM, Bchh. f. — A very distinct and pretty kind, somewhat re- 

 sembling C. ehurneum in appearance. It has tufts of very long (4 ft.) narrow 

 thick-textured leaves, and many-flowered racemes, which are not erect as in 

 U. eburni'um, but pendant ; the flowers are yellowish-white, marked with port 

 wine-coloured streaks in the centre of the sepals and petals, and a border and 

 numprous small streaks of the same colour on the lip. — Assam. 



C. DEVONIANUM, Paxton. — A very distinct as well as rare and handsome 

 species, named in honour of the Duke of Devonshire. It has roundish-oblong 

 pseudobulbs, ovate leathery lanceolate leaves, and radical peduncles bearing a 

 drooping raceme of fifteen or more flowers ; the sepals and petals are pale 

 greenish-yellow slightly spotted with crimson-purple, the lip bluntly ovate, 

 being of a purplish crimson with a large blackish-purple spot on each side. It 

 blooms during April and May. — India. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. t. 170 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., x. p. 97, with tab. ; Journ. of 

 liort., 1889, xviii. p. 401, fig. 65 ; rOrchidopMle, 1893, p. 48. 



C. EBURNEO-LOWIANUNl, Hort. Fet<c/i.— This distinct hybrid is the result 

 of a cross between C. ehurneum and G. Lowianum. It is described in the 



