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ORCHID-GROfl'ER S MANUAL. 



C. ENSIFOLIUM ESTRIATUM, Lindl— This distinct variety was imported by 

 us from Assam, and is worthy of cultivation on account of its sweet perfume. 

 The flowers have narrow segments ; sepals green, lined with red; petals white, 

 lined with purplie ; lip white, mid-lacinia yellow, spotted with brown. — Assam. 



C. GIGAfilTEUM, Wallich.— Though not so handsome as some others, never- 

 theless makes' a gpbd plant for winter blooming. It is a rather large-growing 

 kind, with numerous distichous ensiform leaves, which become dilated at the 

 base and closely invest the large oblong, pseudobulb. The scapes are radical. 



CYMBIDIUM GIGANTBUM. 



2 to 3 feet long, many-flowered and nodding ; the flowers are fragrant, 

 rather large, yellowish-green, striped with purple, and the lip yellow, densely 

 spotted, sometimes round the margin only, with bright crimson ; they are pro- 

 duced during the winter season, and last long in perfection, if kept dry. — Nepaul. 



Fig. — Lindl. Sert. Orch., t. i ; Sot. Mag., t. 4844 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., xii. p. 241, 

 with tab. ; Orcldd Album, vi. t. 284. 



C. GRANDIFLORUM.— See Oymbidium Hookeuianum. 



C. HOOKERIANUM, Bchl. f. — ^An attractive species, similar in its habit of 

 growth to G. giganteum, with tough leathery strap-shaped distichous leaves, 

 2 feet long, striped with yellow along their sheathing base. The scape 

 is radical, erect, nodding in the upper floriferous part. The individual 

 blossoms are very large, 4 to 5 inches in diameter, the sepals and petals 

 yellowish-green, and the lip straw-coloured, deeper yellow at the margins, 

 near which, on the crispy ciliate front lobe, are large blotches of rich crimson- 

 purple, while the flat fringed acute-anglM side lobes are covered with smaller 

 crimson dots; a pair of velvety crimson-spotted lamellae occupy the disk. It 

 should be grown in a pot, and kept in the Cattleya house, for which it is well 

 adapted. — Silchim Himala/ya. 



Fig. — Sot. Mag., t. 5574 ; Batein. Second Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 187 ; Gard. Ckron., Std 

 ser., 1892, xi. p. 267, i 37 ; Journ. of Hort., 1893, xxvi. p. 153, f. 27 (C. grandiflonm}. 



Syn. — C, grandifloi-um. 



