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C. BOXALLII, ReU. f. — A very- distinct and welcome addition to the large 

 group of acaulescent species. In growth it resembles C villosum. as well as in 

 the shape of its flowers. The leaves are broadly ligulate, deep green ; the dorsal 

 sepal is greenish, broadly margined with white and heavily spotted with blackish 

 purple nearly to the top ; the petals are yellowish-green marked with reddish- 

 brown veins; the lip also is yellowish-green lightly tinged with dull purple. 

 It flowers in January and February. The whole of the flower has a peculiar 

 glazed appearance as in C. villosum. This should be grown "in the cool 

 house . — Burmah. 



Fig.— VlUiist. Hort., 3i-d ser., t. 345. 



C. BOXALLII ATRATUM, Bchh.f.— In this form the flowers are larger than 

 in the type, and more brightly coloured, whilst the blackish or blackish-purple 

 spots OD the dorsal sepal are larger and more intense, nearly covering the 

 central area, the whole being margined with white. 



FiG.—Beiiu^ Hort. Beige, 1882, p. 97 ; Gard. Chron., 3rcl ser., 1887, i. p. 210, f. 47 ; 

 HeicJu-niaehia, 2nd ser., i. t. 8. 



C. BOXALLII AUREUM, Sort. — The petals and lip in this variety are almost 

 wholly yellow, and there, are few faint markings on the dorsal sepal. 



C. BOXALLII NIGRESCENS.a^ort— The dorsal sepal is so profusely marbled 

 and spotted with black that there is hardly any other colour discernible; 

 petals also very dark in colour. 



C. BOXALLII ROSEO-MARGINATUM, Desiois.—In this variety the dorsal 

 sepal is richly marbled with shining black, broadly margined with white tinted 

 with rose. 



C. BRAGAIANUM, L. Lind. — This handsome hybrid is the result of a cross 

 between C. hirsutissimum eoerulescens and 0. Boxallii atratum, and is inter- 

 mediate between its two parents. It was raised by the Horticulture Interna- 

 tionale of Brussels, and was dedicated to M. Jose T. da Silva Braga, of Oporto. 

 Dorsal sepal ovate, margins slightly undulated, green, densely spotted and 

 suffused with blackish-purple margined with white; petals green, similar in 

 shape to C. Boxallii, densely spotted with blackish-purple at the base,' extending 

 to about half the length; the extremities are suffused with rosy -purple; lip 

 greenish, flushed with pale brownish-purple. — Garden hyhrid. 



Fig. — Llndenia, vi. t. 279. 



C. BUCHANIANUM, Gotuer.— " This is a beautiful new hybrid, obtained 

 between C. Spicerianiim and C. Druryi. The leaves are very similai- to 

 those of the first-named parent, while the flower is larger, the dorsal 

 sepal being only slightly recurved at the edges and pure snowy white, with 

 a broad central streak of crimson, slightly tinged with emerald green at the 

 base ; the petals are equally divided by a broad stripe of brownish-crimson, the 

 upper half being of a bronzy hue, the lower half yellowish-green, slightly dotted 

 with brown ; pouch-like lip, large for the flower, with a wide opening, yellowish- 



