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parent ; the dorsal sepal measures nearly 2 inches in breadth and 2 inches in 

 height, and is of a very delicate shade of pale rosy-purple, veined and more or 

 less reticulated with rich vinous purple, with a delicate shade of yellow at the 

 top extending down the middle almost to the base, where the faint green is 

 hardly visible, numerous minute purplish dots covering the basal region; 

 petals nearly 2^ inches long, and nearly 1 inch broad, of a delicate yellow, which 

 passes into a vinous rosy-purple at the tips and margins, veined with the same 

 shade of purple, and covered by numerous small spots of blackish-purple 

 mostly disposed in lines along the nerves ; the basal pa,rts in the upper halves 

 of a yellowish-green; pouch yellow, suffused and veined with rosy-purple; 

 scape sometimes two-flowered ; staminode large, yellowish-green, suffused and 

 margined with pale rosj'-purple. — Oarden hybrid. 



Fig.— Journ. of Uort., 1893, xxvi. p. 193, f. 41 ; OrcUd Album, xi. t. 



C. CONSPICUUM, Ilclih. f. — The parentage and origin of this hybrid are 

 unknown, the plant having been purchased at a sale by Mr. R. H. Measures. 

 The dorsal sepal is " broad, elliptic, acute, light green bordered with white, with 

 fifteen to seventeen dark blackish nerves, which run nearly to the margin, and 

 which are very conspicuous ; the inferior connate sepal is much narrower, 

 oblong, acute, very light green, with thirteen light green nerves ; petals 

 ligulate, broader towards the top, blunt, acute, (?) ciliate on the upper margin, 

 with dark mid-lines, superior part almost black at the base, then chestnut, 

 verging to reddish-ochre at the tip ; the lip is nearly like that of C. villosum, 

 but much larger, with much shorter horns, brown in front, ochre-coloured 

 underneath" (H. Gr. Reicihenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. 

 p. 521). — Garden hybrid. 



C. "CONSTANCE," N. E. Brown.— " A. pale-coloured hybrid, between 

 0. Curtihii (male) and 0. 8tonei (female). The leaves are a foot or more long, 

 and about 2 inches broad, green, with the nerves and irregular bars formed 

 by the cross-veins of a darker green, but the mottling is not very pronounced ; 

 both sepals ovate-acute, with recurving sides, milk-white, tinged with pale 

 purple, and with slender purple nerves on the face, the back being of a some- 

 what ochreous colour, suffused with purple, and with purple nerves, slightly 

 shining, and minutely pubescent ; the petals are 3 to 3| inches long, and 

 nearly ^ inch Ijroad ; falcate, acuminate, slightly twisted, of a delicate 

 pale yellowish, covered, except just at the base on the lower side, with 

 very numerous small purple-brown spots that show through on the back, 

 both margins ciliate, with dark purple-brown hairs ; the lip is very like that 

 of C. Stonei in shape, with the margin of the mouth nearly truncate and 

 scarcely grooved beneath, pale purple, the narrow inflexed sides being cream- 

 coloured, with a few light purple spots " (N. E. Brown, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 294). — Oarden hybrid. 



¥m.—j0wrn. of HoH., 1890, xxi. p. 353, f. 46; 



C. CORNINGIANUM.— See 0. Youngianum. 



C. COWLEYANUM, O'Brien.— This, according to Mr. Jas. O'Brien, is a very 

 handsome hybrid, and was raised in the gardens of F. G. Tautz, Esq., of Ealing, 

 by Mr. John C. Cowley, his gardener. It is the result of a cross between 



