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many similar spots on the disk and side lobes, with an elongated blotch on 

 either side of ithe lip ; disk with a pair of short parallel plates with recurved 

 margins near the base, and three slender crenulate keels in front. Column 

 5 lines long, broadly clavate, pale green, with many black dots on face, a 

 narrow black margin, and deep-brown anther-case." — Madagascar. 



C. HUTTONI, Hook. fil. — A rare and very remarkable-looking species, 

 growing 12 to IS inches high, with elongate ovoid furrowed pseudobulbs, tipped 

 by two oblong obtuse thick leathery leaves, and crowded drooping ten-flowered 

 racemes of flowers, on scapes springing from the base of the pseudobulbs ; 

 they are very singular in aspect, ringent, the sepals yellow, closely tranversely 

 streaked with broken chocolate lines, the petals wholly of a chocolate-brown, 

 and the three-lobed lip greenish-yellow, dotted all over with chocolate; 

 externally the flowers are of an olive-green colour. — Java. 



Fm.— Bat. Mag., t. 567fi. 



C. HYACINTHINUM — See Bletia HrAciNiHiNA. 



C. LOWIANUM, Biclib. f. — A very distinct and beautiful species, producing 

 long drooping racemes of from eighteen to twenty flowers on spikes 2 to 3 feet 

 long. These flowers are larger than in C giganteum, about 4 inches across; 

 the sepals and petals yellowish-green, with several faint sepia-brown lines, 

 and the lip cream-coloured, with the large erect side lobes yellow, and having 

 on the anterior part a large velvety-maroon blotch margined with yellow. 

 It flowers in February and March, and remains about 3 months in perfection. 

 This plant was at first thought to be a variety of 0. giganteum, but the late 

 Professor Eeichenbach believed it to be specifically distinct. There are 

 several varieties. — India : Burmah. 



¥10,.— Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 353 ; Gard. Chron., N.s. xi. p. 404, fig. .56 ; L'Orchido- 

 pliilc, 1885, p. 143 ; Reiclicnbaclda, 2nd set., ii. t. 53 ; Warner'n Sol. Orch. PI., iii. t. 31 ; 

 VeitcKs Man. Orch. PI., ix. p. 19 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 471 ; Lindenia, ix. t. 392 (var. 

 superhissimum). 



C. LOWIANUM MANDAIANUM, Gowen— The flowers of this variety are said 

 to be larger than those of the type, and of a bright clear yellow, while the front 

 of the lip is light orange. 



Syn. — C. Lowlanum aureum. 



C. MASTERSII, Griffith. — A handsome species, much like G. ebumeum in its 

 tufted distichous narrow ensiform leaves, and its manner of growth, but the 

 flowers, which are produced (seven to ten in number) on upright spikes, are 

 very different in shape, and much sma,ller, white, with a yellow centre, and 

 have the throat and anterior lobe of the lip spotted with rosy-purple ; they are 

 almond-scented. This blooms during the winter, and continues long in flowers 

 — India. 



Fig.— Sot. Meg., 1845, t. 50 ; Lein. Jard. Fl., t. 289 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 78 

 Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 391 ; Lindenia, v. t. 222. 



Syn. — Cyperorchls Mastersii. 



