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C. INSIGNE MACFARLANEI, jeo?/e.— The flowers are of delicate yellow, the 

 dorsal sepal has a wide white margin, and like the preceding variety it is 

 without spots. 



C. INSIGNE MACULATUM, Hort.—A very handsome form with regular 

 flowers. The dorsal sepal is somewhat like that of the variety Maulei, but less 

 sjiotted. This is one of the many varieties possessed by W. S. Kimball, Esq., 

 of Rochester, N.Y., who has one of the largest collections of these varieties in 

 existence. 



C. INSIGNE MAULEI, Moore. — A very handsome variety of C. insigne, which 

 has the same habit of growth, but has shorter and smaller foliage; it flowers 

 at the same time with the type, but is miich handsomer, the broad incurved 

 dorsal sepal being more tapered below, pure white on the upper half, heavily and 

 regularly spotted with purple above and purple-brown below, the spots larger 

 and bolder, so that the whole flower is richer in colour, while the lip is broader 

 and of a light olive brown. Flowers in autumn, and the blossoms will continue 

 in perfection six weeks.' This was introduced by Messrs. Maule & Sons, 



Bristol, after whom it is named. — India. 



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 Fig. — Floral Mag., t. 57 ; Flore des Serres, 1. 1564: (poor) ; Oaril. Chron.. N.s., xviii. 

 }). 716, f. 126 ; The 'Oard.'ii, xxi. p. 444, t. 342, left-hand fig. 



C. INSIGNE MAXIMUM, Des&ois.— This is said to be the finest variety of all; 

 tl/e dorsal sepal is very large, undulate, clear green striped with dark green, 

 spotted with brown, with a large white portion at the top spotted with violet ; 

 petals broad,, olive-green shaded and netted with clear brown; pouch wide, 

 yellow shaded with yellDwish-brown. — SyJhei. 



' C. INSIGNE MOENSI, ,i)es6ois. — A variety with an ochre-yellow dorsal sepal, 

 spotted with black and bordered by pure white ; petals broad, undulate, yellow, 

 veined and netted with brown ; pouch yellow marbled with brown, very shining. 

 This variety is in the collection of Mr. Moens of Lede, Belgium. 



C. INSIGNE MOOREANUM, Williams.— A well-marked and handsome 

 ^•;U'iety of this well-known popular Orchid, having long narrow ligulate green 

 leaves, and tall purple hairy flower scapes 18 to 20 inches high, supporting a 

 large flower which issues from a pale green compressed spathe; the sepals and 

 ]ietals stand so as to form a cross, the dorsal sepal being about 1^ inch across, 

 fornicate, with the margins undulate, the margin for about i of an inch white, 

 this width being slightly increased at the folded apes, and the remainder 

 of the surface pale yellowish-green, freely decorated throughout with spots of 

 purple-brown ; the lower sepal is smaller but well displayed, and is of the same 

 colour, with the purple spots paler; the linear-obovate petals are upwards of 2 

 inches long, finely crispate at the base, and more undulated towards the apex, 

 glossy, ciliate, greenish-yellow tinged with pale purplish-brown along the veins, 

 and two rows of dots along the margin, the lower line longer, the upper one 

 shorter, and a few scattered between near the base, where there are purple hairs ; 

 tlie pouch-shaped lip has two obtuse wide-spread ears, and is greenish-yellow 

 suffused with light brown, polished; the staminode yellow, obversely heart- 



