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C. Lan-renceanum, and was exhibited by him before the Eoyal Horticultural 

 Society on November 28th, 1893, when it received an award of merit. The 

 general aspect of the flowers reminds one of the first named parent, but as 

 might be expected the dorsal sepal in its dimensions partakes more of that of 

 the other parent ; in colour this latter organ is white in the upper part passing 

 into green at the base, the whole covered with thick crimson-purple reins. The 

 petals are green striped with purple, the stripes being broken up into spots at 

 the basal half. Lip greenish purple. — Garden hybrid. 



YlG.—Ga/i-d. Mag., 1893, p. 728 (woodcut). 



C. FAIRRIEANUM, Lindley. — A beautiful rare and distinct species of the 

 stemless type. The leaves are distichous, loriform, channelled, of a light green 

 colour, and the scapes green and pilose, the flowers produced very freely during 

 the autumn months, and continuing in perfection for six weeks. They are large, 

 with a dark purple ovary, the broad spreading dorsal sepal greenish-white, 

 beautifully veined with dark purple ; the petals, which are oblong-lanceolate, 

 white, striped with green and edged with purple, are peculiarly deflexed and 

 curved like the horns of a buffalo ; and the large lip is brownish-green with 

 purple reticulations. This plant is seldom seen doing well, the reason, we 

 believe, being that it usually gets too much heat, for with us it succeeds best in 

 the Cattleya house. — Asscrni. 



Fig. — Orchid, Albmii, ii. t. 70 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5024 ; Batem. Second Cent. Oreh. PI., 

 t. 140 ; Xeiiia Orch., ii. t. 133 ; Flore dcs Serres, t. 1244 ; Tlie Garden, iii. p. 431, with 

 fig. ; Id., vi. p. 69. with fig. ; Id., xxiv. p. 442, with fig. ; Revue Ilort. Beige, 1886, p. 37 ; 

 VeifeA's Ma/i. Orch. PL, iv. p. 25 ; L' Orchidojihile, 1891, p. 336 ; Jourii.'of Ilort., 1889, 

 xviii. p. 40, f. 6. 



C. " FIGARO," O'Brien. — " This is supposed to be the result of inter-crossing 

 O. Spicerianum with G. oenanihum superbum, but, as with many of our garden 

 hybrids, the cross has not been certainly recorded. The appearance of the 

 flower of the new hybrid, however, seems to bear out the conjecture as to the 

 parentage pretty clearly, especially in the purplish-crimson, flame-like rays 

 which glow on the white background of the dorsal sepal much as in the 

 favourite C. oenanthum. In form G. Figaro follows closely C. Spicerianum, 

 and its dorsal sepal has the same broad chocolate line up its middle as in 

 that species. The base of the dorsal sepal is bright green, the edge and apex 

 pure white ; staminode shining rose, with green spot in the centre ; lower 

 sepals green, with a few faint brown lines ; petals curled upwards and 

 backwards at the tips, dull rose with brown lines, their ciliate edges forming 

 a narrow green margin ; front of the pouch brownish-rose, the back yellowish, 

 the whole surface of the flower shiny ; scape dull purple, hairy ; leaves as in 

 C. Spicerianum, bright green, but exhibiting very obscurely a darker veining. 

 A very compact and pretty variety " (James O'Brien, in Gardeners' Ghronicle, 

 3rd ser., 1889, vi. p. 7bO).— Garden hybrid. 



C. FITCHIANUM, Williams. — -Across between G. Hooherae and G. harbatmn ; 

 leaves greyish-green, beautifully tessellated with deep olive-green. Scape one- 

 flowered ; dorsal sepal greenish-white, with deep green veins ; inferior sepal 

 similar in colour but much smaller ; petals undulate on the margins, green, 

 with deeper green veins at the base, and a few scattered wart-like spots, 



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