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white with a very delicate mauve-pink tinge, and a mauve-purple middle line ; 

 the back is suffused with mauve-purple, the base being light yellow ; lower sepal 

 ovate-acute, the sides rolled back and embracing the ovary, white on both 

 sides, with the base light yellow on the back ; petals about 3| inches long, 

 linear-falcate, acuminate, twisted, with undulate margins, the lower border 

 being strongly revolute, yellow at the base, passing into greenish-yellow 

 towards the apex, and densely dotted with purple-brown along the upper 

 nerves and mid-line, and more sparingly along the lower nerves ; lip like that 

 of G. Slonei in shape, with a very shallow groove beneath, purplish, with the 

 basal part and narrow inflexed sides yellowish; staminode broadly trapezoid 

 with a central point, convex, white, pubescent at the base and sides with purple 

 hairs" (N. E. Brown in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 294). 

 FiG.—Journ. of Ilort., 1892, xxiv. p. 481, f. 82. 



C. ALMUM, Rchh. f. — A cross between C. hirhaium and G. Lawrenccanum. 

 Dorsal sepal large, white, stained with purple at the base, veined with green 

 in the centre, the lateral veins broader, rich purple, inferior sepal white, 

 sparingly streaked with purple ; petals dull brown, tipped with purple, and 

 bordered on each edge with numerous black wart-like spots ; pouch bronzy- 

 brown, suffused with dull purple, the incurved edges soft green with purplish 

 dots. — Garden hybrid. 



C. AMANDUM, Bchb. f.-r-^ very pretty hybrid between G. insigne and G. venu- 

 atwm, raised by T. C. Bowring, Esq., of Windsor. The leaves are light green, 

 with a sharp dark purple keel at the back. The flowers are of medium size; 

 the dorsal sepal of a delicate yellowish-green, with many light green stripes and 

 many small dark purple spots in the lower portion, margined with white ; petals 

 yellowish-green at the base, passing into a delicate shade of purplish-brown on 

 the upper half, spotted with rich dark purple; pouch golden-yellow at the 

 apex, suffused with pale purple near the margin, the whole of the organ covered 

 with greenish and purplish venations. Staminode rich golden-yellow, with a 

 few slight greenish venations in the centre. Blooms in the autumn months. — 

 Garden hybrid. 



C. AMESIANUM, Williams. — A cross between G. villosum and G. venustum; 

 leaves deep green above, spotted and blotched with brownish-purple beneath 

 at the base ; dorsal sepal ovate, white, stained with dull brown at the base, and 

 veined with light green, inferior sepal white, suffused with pale green, and 

 veined with deeper green ; petals large, superior half chesnut-brown ; lower 

 half greenish-yellow; pouch large, obtuse, brown suffused with flesh-colour, 

 green in front, whole flower of the same fresh varnished appearance as that of 

 its first-named parent. It is named in honour of the late Hon. F. L. Ames, 

 of Boston, U.S.A. Blooms in the winter months. — Garden hybrid. 



Via.— Orchid Album, viii. t. 310. 



C. ANTIGONE, Eolfe. — " This, the reversed cross of G. Aphrodite, is a 

 beautiful hybrid, raised from C. Lawronceanum, fertilised with the pollen 

 of G. niveum. It . was raised by Messrs. James Veitch & Sons. It is a 

 stronger plant altogether than G. Aphrodite — in fact, each seems to have taken 

 the character of the seed parents respectively, so far as vigour of growth 

 is concerned. In G. Antigone both leaved and flowers are very handsome. 



