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tips dull reddish-purple; pouch large aud full, green, sufEused with dull 

 purple, and netted with dark green. Blooms in winter and spring. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



Fia.—OrcJtid Album, viii. t. 350. 



Sys.— C. atys. 



C. FRASERI, Rdih.f. — This hybrid was raised by Mr. Fraser, of Derncleugh, 

 near Aberdeen, and is the result of a cross between C. hirsutissimum and 

 C. barhatum, or some closely allied species. It has the characcer of being a 

 shy bloomer ; leaves similar to those of C. barbatam, but slightly narrower ; 

 dorsal sepal yellowish, sufEused and veined with reddish-purple and margined 

 in the upper part with white, ciliate ; petals narrow, elongate, taking a down- 

 ward curve, spotted over at least two-thirds of their surface with purplish- 

 brown on a pale rosy-purple ground ; lip long and narrow, deep rosy -purple in 

 front, greenish underneath. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindenia, vi. t. 253. 



C. GALATEA, Bolfe.— f' This is one of Mr. Seden's hybrids, but of which un- 

 fortunately the origin is unknown, perhaps through the seed having been washed 

 ofi the pot, or some other accident to which even the most carefully recorded 

 experiments are sometimes liable. It is, however, decidedly of the insigne type, 

 and while possessing all the beauty of that species, there are also a number of 

 important differences from which the other parent must be inferred ; the general 

 character is that of 0. insigne, but the upper sepal is much lighter, almost prim- 

 rose-coloured, the spots denser and more inclining to light purple-brown, and the 

 broad white margin carried right round the sepal almost to the base ; the petals 

 are light purple-brown on their upper half, paler below, blotched with purple- 

 Tarown for a third of their length on the dark portion, and for half their length on 

 the paler one, all finely ciliate ; the lip paler and very indistinctly veined, and the 

 staminode with a somewhat less distinct tooth. I cannot trace these characters to 

 the influence of any distinct species, and probably some hybrid is concerned in 

 the parentage. Mr. Seden is strongly of opinion that C. Harrisianum is one 

 of the parents, which would account for the somewhat varnished appearance 

 of the petals, if not also for the spots on these organs. I thought of (.'. vemixium, 

 but this, he says, is too modern. The leaf is very similar to that of these two 

 hybrids — green, with somewhat indistinct darker tessellations. I cannot sug- 

 gest any more likely parentage for the plant" (R. A. .Rolfe, in Gardeners' 

 Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 168). — Garden hybrid. 



Fl6.— Gard. J/«(/., 1893, March 4th (Supplement). 



C. GASKELLIANUM.-See C. Niobe. 



C. GEMMIFERUM, Bchb.f.—A cross between G.Eooherae and G. purpuratum, 

 leaves te iellated with dark green, on a paler green ground. Scape one-flowered ; 

 dorsal sep, 1 white, with closely set veins, and stripes of green ; inferior sepal 

 similar in colour, but smaller ; petals green at base, passing into pale purple at 

 the tips and bearing on the upper side several small blackish wart-like spots ; 

 pouch brownish-purple, the inflexed portion green, flecked and dotted with 

 deep purple. Blooms during the summer months. Eaised by Mr. Bowrincr, 

 . Forest Farm, Windsor. — Garden hybrid. 



