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C. MASTERSII ALBUM, Echh. /.—A pretty and chaste variety of the 

 preceding, having pure white flowers, which are delioiously fragrant. This, 

 according to Professor Reichenbach, is distinct from the old spotted form. 

 Flowers during the winter months. — India. 



Fig. — Reichenbacliia, ii. t. 66. 



C. PARISHII, Rohh. f. — A very handsome and distinct species, having 

 fusiform fleshy stems, and distichous foliage similar to that of G. ehurneum, 

 but broader. The flowers, which are sweet-scented, and produced on upright 

 spikes generally three together, are about the same size as those of G. eburneutn. 

 The sepals and petals are creamy white, the lip white, with an orange-coloured 

 central band, and ornamented by numerous violet-purple spots ; the centre of 

 the front portion of the lip is of a bright orange-colour. This species is ex- 

 tremely rare ; on one occasion we paid as much as a hundred guineas for a 

 single plant. It flowers during July and August. — Moulmein. 

 Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 25 ; Xenia Oroli., iii, t. 224. 



C. PENDULUM, Lindl. — A very elegant species of large growth, with 

 distichous tufts of leathery ensiform strongly furrowed leaves, 2 to 3 feet long, 

 and very long pendulous racemes of moderate-sized yellowish olive-tinted 

 flowers, having the side lobes and tip of the lip rosy-red, the disk clear white, 

 with two yellow crests on its surface. It blooms in July or August, and lasts 

 long in beauty. — Sylhet. 



Fig. — Bot. Reg., 1840, t. 25 ; Id., 1844, t. 24 (var. bi-evilabre) ; Roxb. Corom. PL, i. 

 t. 44 ; Orchid Album, x. t. 437. 



C. PENDULUM ATRO-PURPUREUM, Hook. fil.—A fine and very distinct 

 variety of G. pendulum, producing splendid racemes of flowers, from 2 to 3 feet 

 in length, and having the sepals and petals of a rich deep purple, yellowish- 

 green externally, and the recurved lip white tinged with rose, and marked with 

 a few crimson-purple spots, the disk yellowish, with two parallel lamellae. It 

 flowers in May and June, and remains a long time in perfection. — Philippine 

 Islands, Borneo. 



¥lG.—Rot. Mag., t. 5710. 



C. TIGRINUM, Parish. — A very pretty plant of dwarf habit, and, as Major- 

 General E. S. Berkeley remarks in the Gardeners' Glironicle, 1887 : — " It is found 

 growing on rocky hills in the crevices of the rocks. It is a plant of easy 

 culture, and bears very large flowers in comparison with the size of the 

 pseudobulbs. Many of the Gymbidiums are gross in habit, and only suited to 

 large collections. In G. tigrinum we have a plant suitable for every collec- 

 tion, compact in habit, taking up very little room, and lasting a long time 

 in flower." It has small roundish-ovate pseudobulbs ; oblong lanceolate, 

 slightly twisted leaves, 5 or 6 inches long, and radical scapes, bearing a few 

 (about three) large flowers, of an olive-tinted yellowish green, spotted with 

 red; the lip clawed, three-lobed, the recurved oblong apioulate middle lobe 

 white marked with crossbars of crimson-purple, and the erect side lobes also 

 striped with purple. The plant is quite unlike the other species referred to 

 this genus. — Tenasserim Mountains, 6,000 feet elevation. 



Yin.— But. Mag., t. 5457. 



