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C. CARICINUM, Lindley.—A -very curious and elegant Orchid, having a 

 singular grassy or sedge-like appearance, and long creeping rhizomes, totally 

 distinct from those of any other species. It grows a foot or more in 

 height, the flower-spike rising clear of the stifE narrow channelled foliage, and 

 producing from four to seven flowers of a. pale green colour, the sepals and 

 petals having a white margin, and the ends being blotched with rich brown, the 

 latter narrow, deflexed, and twisted, and the oblong lip beautifully marked on 

 the inner margin by a row of black dots. The staminode is bordered with black 

 hairs resembling a pair of whiskers. A very remarkable plant, and well 

 adapted for growing in the cool house with Odontoglossums. — Peru. 



Fia.—Bot. Mag., t.'5466 ; Flore, dc-i ,Scnvx, 1. 1648 ; VcltoKn Man. Orcli. PI., iv. p. 59. 

 Syn. — C. Pearcci ; Selempediuin cariciimm. 



C. CARRIEREI, Hort. Gall. — A cross between 0. venustum and C superiiens. 

 The leaves are light green, with tessellations of a deeper green ; dorsal sepal 

 whitish, suffused and veined with green ; inferior sepal much smaller, similarly 

 marked ; petals green at the base, rose at the tips, veined with delicate green, 

 bearing numerous black, scattered, wart-like spots on the edges and along the 

 median region ; pouch long and narrow, greenish-red, veined with deeper green. 

 Blossoms in spring and summer. Obtained by Mr. Bauer at La Muette in 

 Paris, and exhibited by B. J. Measures, Esq., of Camberwell, before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society on November 14th, 1893. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Le Muniteur d'Sorticiiltiirc, 1887, p. 54. 



C. CASSIOPE, llolfe. — This is the result of a cross effected by Messrs. 

 Seeger & Tropp, of Dulwich, between C. venustum and C. Sookerae. "The 

 upper sepal has the markings of G. renustimi, but is relatively broader ; the 

 petals narrower, more conspicuously nerved, with from four to six spots only 

 on each, and the light warm brown of the apical portion replaced by a purple 

 similar to that of G. Hookerae ; cilia as in G. reiiustuni; the lip is much larger than 

 in G.venuitum, the characteristic nervation almost obliterated and the whole more 

 suffused with purple; the margins of the side lobes have also acquired a 

 number of light purple spots, not seen in G. venustum. Staminode a little larger, 

 a shade less deeply notched and the markings a little more conspicuous " (B. A. 

 Bolfe in Gardeners' Ghronicle, 3rd ser., 1889, v. p. 200), — Garden hybrid. 



C. CASTLEANUNI, Bolfe. — " A hybrid raised from C. hirsutissimum, Bchb. f., 

 crossed with the pollen of C. superbicns, Bchb. f., and quite intermediate in 

 character. The leaves are light glaucous-gi-een with darker reliculated veins, 

 6 to 8 inches long by 1^ iiich broad; dorsal sepal ovate, obtuse. If inch long 

 by 1| inch broad, light maroon-purple, with darker nerves, a white margin, 

 and a few minute black dots at base ; petals widelj- spreading, 2| inches long, 

 linear-oblong, ciliate, light green at base, passing into maroon-purple towards 

 apex, with numerous dark brown spots on basal half ; lip a little compressed at 

 sides, nearly 2 inches long, dull maroon-purple in 'front, paler behind, the 

 infolded side lobes with numerous small maroon spots ; staminode with broad 

 rounded base and three blunt, short teeth at apex, palest green with slightly 

 darker reticulated nerves, purplish on basal half" (R. A. ^olie, Reichenbachia, 

 2nd ser., i. t. 45). — Garden hybrid. 



FlG.~Iicichenbachia,2nd. ser., i. t. 45 ; JvKnt. of Ilort., 1891, xxii. p. 101, f. 19. 



