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purplish on the dorsal sepal, more decidedly with rosy-purple on the petals, 

 and with pale purple-brown on the lip. The apex and margin of the dorsal 

 sepal are white, and there are a few purple spots at the base, as also at the base 

 of the petals. The plant is now in the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., of the 

 "Woodlands, Streatham" (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, ix. p. 40). — Garden 

 liybrid. 



C. "ALFRED," N. E. Broion. — " This was raised from the seeds of G. venustum, 

 fertilised with the pollen of C. pMlippinense [laevigaium). It is a rather distinct- 

 looking plant, and decidedly intermediate in character between its parents ; the 

 leaves are 7 to 8 inches long, and about IJ to If inch broad, oblong, rather 

 obtuse, of the same bright green, with pale nerves, as in C. philippinense, and 

 hieroglyphic markings of a darker green that are not very conspicuous ; the 

 surface is minutely papillate, as in 0. venustum; the under side is dull green, 

 dusted with dull purple, which is also a character of 0. venustum,; thj scape is 

 5 to 6 inphes long, piirple and hairy, one-flowered in the present instance, 

 but a moderately-developed second bract indicates that on a stronger plant it 

 will be two or more flowered ; bract an inch long, green, smooth, with a ciliate, 

 acute keel; ovary 21 inches long, purple, hairy ; upper and lower sepals rather 

 like those of G. philippinense, but not so thick, and with rather more nerves, 

 ovate acute ; the upper one flat, with the apex slightly curving forwards, white 

 with a pale greenish base, and brownish-green on brownish-purple nerves, and 

 with a faint indication of an arched transverse band across the lower part ; the 

 lower sepal slightly concave, white with brownish-green or brownish-purple 

 nerves ; petals 3 inches long, \ to | inch broad, strap-shaped, acute, drooping, 

 and twisted half round at the middle, the basal part yellowish with green 

 jierves. and spotted with purple, the apical half entirely purple, both margins 

 -ciliate with purple hairs; the lip is very similar to that, of G. venustum,, of the 

 rsame light bronzy-green with a darker network of veins; the inflexed sides 

 are shining and yellowish without markings; staminode as broad as long, very 

 convex, with a shallow groove down the middle and in front with a tooth on 

 . each side that rests on the inflexed sides of the lip, yellowish, reticulated with 

 ■ dark green and pubescent with purple hairs'' (N. E. Brown in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 294). — Garden hybrid. 

 Fig.— Joun. of Hort., 1891, xxiii. p. 153, f. 23. 



C. " ALFRED BLEU," Hort.— A fine hybrid raised by M. Alfred Bleu, after 

 -whom it is named. It is a cross between C. ciliolare and C. insigne punctatum, 

 viohbceum,. It has a broad dorsal sepal, which is white and covered w^ith 

 numerous purplish streaks and spots, with the edges ciliolate; the lip is 

 reddish-brown. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Revue Hovticole, 1893, p. 84 (plate). 



C. "ALICE." N. E. Brown. — "This novelty was raised from C. Stonei, 

 fertilised by (7. Spicerianum. The leaves are 16 to 16 inches long and about 

 IJ inch broad, bright shining green with very indistinct darker nerves and cross 

 veins, the under-surface of an uniform paler green ; scape 6 inches or more 

 long, purplish-green, sparsely covered with short hairs, two-flowered; bracts 

 rather open, 1 to I5 inch long, nearly glabrous, pale-green, tinged and nerved 

 with purple ; ovary 2J to 3 inches long, glabrous, purple, or greenish-purple ; 

 upper sepal I5 inch long and nearly as broad, elliptic acute, the sides reflexed 

 almost from the middle, and tlicir edges nearly or quite meeting at the back. 



