230 oechid-grotcer's manual. 



The former arc yellow-greeri, with numerous' reticulated dark-green veins, 

 and some irregular blotches of the same colour, which suggest small pieces 

 of some fossil selaginella on a slab mdre than anything else I can think of ; 

 the flowers are white, variously nerved and veined with light purple in a most 

 pleasing manner ; they are well intermediate in shape, but the petals and lip 

 bear a strong resemblance to those of 0. niveum, while the colour of the same 

 parent largely preponderates " (R. A. Rolfe in Gardeners' Chronicle,^ 3rd ser., 

 1890, vii£ p. 716). — Garden hybrid. 



Fia.—Jaum. of liort., 1891, xxili. p. 262, f. 19. 



C. APHRODITE, Veiich. — A cross between C. niveum, and G. Laivrenceanum. 

 Xeaves tessellated and marbled with, light green on a dark green ground, 

 Tlowers very handsome ; dorsal sepal orbicular, white, spotted with rose, and 

 .stained at the base with green. — Garden hybrid. 



C. APICULATUM, Mchb. f. — " A cross raised between C. barbatum and 

 G. Boxalli, by Mr. D. O. Drewett, Eiding Mill-on-Tyne, Northumberland. Leaves 

 remarkably broad in the middle, general shape of those of C. barbatum, very 

 light green, with obscure reticulate markings; the height of the peduncle is 

 intermediate between that of the parents ; it is dark purple, hairy, but not as 

 in C. Boxalli, where the hairs remind one of those of a goat ; bract much 

 shorter than the green ovary, whose ribs are reddish ; sepals and petals as if 

 varnished inside, dorsal sepal cuneate, oblong-acute, with light ochre-coloured 

 margin, and very dark black-purple veins, between which is a lighter reddish- 

 brown tinge ; connate, sepals narrower, oblong-aciite, green, with reddish-browH 

 veins ; petals ligulate, oblong, blunt, acute, somewhat spathulate, a little ciliate 

 on the inner margin, light brown-purple, inferior half yellowish from the 

 middle to base, w^here there are numerous small purple-blackish spots. The 

 lip has nearly the shape of that of G. Boxalli, with well formed, lateral horn- 

 like anguli of the sac, greenish ochre-coloured at base, with some light small 

 brown spots, brown in front. Staminode transversely oblong, apiculate in 

 front, yellow, with a deep green knob in front " (H. G. Rchb. f . in Gardeners' 

 Ghronicle, ir.s., 1886, xxv. p. 617). — Garden hybrid. 



C. ARGUS, Bchb.f. — This is a very distinct species, resembling C. barbatum 

 in growth. The oblong-lanceolate sub-distichous dark green leaves are hand- 

 somely tessellated with yellow-green. The scapes are from 1| to 2 feet high, 

 and bear one large showy flower; of which the dorsal sepal is whitish striped 

 with green, the linear-oblong petals, about 3 inches long, whitish, striped with 

 green towards the base, rose-coloured towards the tip, heavily spotted with 

 dark purple spots, many of which are ocellate ; the lip purplish-brown, green 

 on the under-side. It flowers in March and April, and is peciiliarin the well- 

 marked ocellate spots on the petals. — Philippine Islands. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t. 617."> ; Floral Mag., 2nd ser., t. 220 ; Mcvue Hort. Beige, 1888, 

 p. 85 ; Reichenbaohia, ii. t. 83. 



Syn. — C. PHcheriannm , Manda. 



C. ARGUS MOENSU, iTori.— Mowers broader and larger than the type, and 

 more profusely spotted with dark purple. — Luzon. 

 VlG.^Zinrlonifi, lii. t. 129. 

 Syn. — C Mociuianvm. 



