^^Q orchid-grower's manual. 



C. HOOKERO-VEITCHII — See C. Oenone. 



C. HORNIANUM, RcKb. f. — " This is a cross between C superhiens and C. 

 Spicerianum, made by Mr. F. Horn, the Orchid grower of Baron Nathaniel von 

 Eothschild, at Hohe-Warte, near Vienna. It is very shoi't and strong, as I learn. 

 Leaves of C. superhiens (Veitchianum), very pallid, with pallid transverse 

 interrupted bars ; flower as large as that of a good C. Spicerianum ; peduncle 

 ochre, with reddish-purple stripes, hairy ; bract shorter than the hairy ochre- 

 coloured ovary ; upper sepal quite formed as in O. Spicerianum,, white, with a 

 dark purple mid-line, yellowish-green at the base, with a few lines of nearly 

 microscopical dark blackish-purple spots ; petals a little bent downwards, as in 

 C. superhiens, a little undulate on the outer margin, lightest greenish, by 

 lightest white-purple on the margins ; the mid vein is covered with numerous 

 blaokish-ptirple spots, on . each side there are six such rows and innumerable 

 similar spots scattered everywhere ; lower sepals elliptic acute, half as short as 

 the lip ; lip much in the way of that of C. Spicerianum, though the shoe is 

 longer, making a concession to G. superhiens; it is purple-brown" (H. Gr. 

 Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, ii. p. 428). — Garden 

 hyhrid. 



C. HUYBRECHTIANUM, Tervaet.—A magnificent hybrid obtained by Mr. 

 Vervaet, of Ghent, the result of a cross between C. hirsuiissimum and C. 

 Spicerianum. "The upper sepal is dull yellow, the base very finely speckled 

 with brown, and shading into black, the centre white at the base, with many 

 and minute specks or spots of pink, with a wide border of pure white, the mid- 

 rib deeper pink than are the spots in the centre, in shape rounded at the edges, 

 and the tip green and hooded ; the outer surface is evenly tinged with rosy-lilac ; 

 the lower sepal straw-coloured with two lines of black dots ; the petals are of 

 medium size, slightly pendent, ground greenish-yellow for two-thirds of their 

 length, spotted with dark chesnut brow3i, rosy-purple towards the tip, which 

 is very wide and spoon-shaped, the upper part delicately wavy, and lightly 

 fringed with creamy- white ; the lip coppery bronze, spotted with brown in the 

 centre and round the orifice; the staminode rosy-lilac, lightly bordered with 

 pinkish white ; the upper part has two white spots, and the centre is citron- 

 yellow" (Comte de Buysson, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1892, xi. 

 p. 554.) — Garden hyhrid. 



C. HYBRIDUM, Hort. Bull— See C. Haueisianum. 



C. HYEANUM — See C. Laweenceanum HTEANUir. 



C. INSIGNE, WalUch. — A well-known good old species of the acaulescent 

 group, furnished with distichous ligulate light green leaves, and producing 

 its solitary flowers on purple hairy scapes during the winter months, lasting 

 six weeks in bloom. The broadly ovate dorsal sepal is greenish below; 

 thickly spotted with purple-brown and tipped with white ; the oblong- 

 obovate petals and the saccate lip are greenish, more or less tinged with 

 olive brown. This is a most useful species fpr autumn-flowering, and 

 should be largely grown on account of the long-lasting properties of its 



