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with deep rosy purple; the petals are similar in colour and furnished all over 

 their surface with small dark purple spots ; the lip is dark purple brown. — 

 Garden hyhrid. 



¥ia.—JuurH. nf Hmi., IS93, xxvi. p. 517, f. 92. 



C. CHARLESWORTHII, Bolfe.—A beautiful and striking novelty which was 

 exhibited before the Eoyal Horticultural Society, on September 26th, 1893, by 

 Messrs. Charlesworth, Shuttleworth & Co. In habit of growth it resembles 

 G. Spicerianum; the broad dorsal sepal is flat, 2^ inches wide, white, reined with 

 light rosy-purple ; lower sepal about 1 inch broad, greenish-white ; petals 1^ 

 inch long ; yellowish tinged with brown ; pouch not unlike that of C. insigne, 

 also yellow tinged with brown ; the prominent staminode is pure white, with a 

 spur in the centre. — East Indies. 



Fia.—JoV7-n. of Hurt., 1893, xxvii., p. 307, f. 43 ; Gard. Chron., 3rrl ser.. 1893, xiv., 

 p. 457, f. 70 ; Orchid Itericw, i. frontispiece ; Gard. Mag., 1893, p. 750 (woodcut). 



C. CHLORONEURUM, Rchh. f. — A very distinct and free-growing hybrid, 

 raised by E. Warner, Esq., of Broomtield, Chelmsford.' It has beautifully 

 variegated foliage, and the flowers are large and well expanded, the dorsal 

 sepal of a bright lively pale green colour reticulately veined with darker green 

 and bordered with white ; the oblong petals are also green suffused on the 

 distal upper half with purple, and furnished with a few black marginal warts 

 near the base ; and the lip is large, heavily stained with wine-purple and freely 

 marked with reticulations of a darker purple. It flowers during December, 

 January, and February. — Garden hyhrid. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, i. t. 37. 



C. CILIOLARE, Rclib.f. — ^A distinct and handsome species, having foliage in 

 the way of (J. Argua and flowers similar to those of O. superhiens, but it is not so 

 handsome as that species. The dorsal sepal is smaller and curved forward, and 

 is traversed longitudinally with green veins on a white ground suffused with 

 purple ; the petals are purplish, and densely spotted with black on the lower 

 halves ; and the lip is dull purple, and covered with a sort of down. The hairs 

 on the margins of the sepals and petals are more numerous and denser than in 

 C. superhiens. It blossoms in April and May. — Malay Archipelago. 



Fig. — Gudcfroy's Les Oiji)rij>iidiecs,\iaxt i. 



C.CILIOLARE IVllTEAUANUIVl,£mi.ei Bod.— Ahandsome variety which differs 

 from the type by having larger flowers of a brighter colour and being more hairy. 

 It has been named after M. Gustavo Miteau, of Jette-Saint-Pierre, Hear Brussels. 



Fig. — tindenia, iv. t. 14G. 



C. CLAPTONENSE, Rchh. /.—This hybrid was raised by Messrs. H. Low 

 & Co. One 01 its parents was C. HarrUianum, but the other is not known, 

 but believed to be U. villosum. The dorsal sepal is rather narrow, bright green 

 at the base, white in the upper part, with small dark purple spots arranged in 

 rows ; the petals are strap-shaped, widest at the extremities, of an ochre-yellow 

 colour, with a brown median line ; the upper halves are marked transversely 

 with brown between the nerves. — Garden hybrid. 



C. CLARKEI.— Sec C. insigne Ol.4.ekei. 



