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OKCHID-GROWER S MANUAL. 



shaped, with an emarginate apiculate apex, a central'orange-coloured boss, and 

 a sub-oordate base, where the surface is covered with stiff purple hairs. It is 

 a very desirable form. 



YlQ,.— Orchid Album, x. t. 445. 



C. INSIGNE PUNCTATUM VIOLACEUM, CfBHen.— This choice variety is a 

 still finer plant than C. insigne Maulei, the flowers, which on the whole are 



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CYPEIPEDIUM PUNCTATUM VIOLACEUM. 



(From the Gardeners' Chroniele.') 



rather smaller, being superior in size as regards the breadth of the dorsal sepal, 

 the white portion of which is equally broad and conspicuous, the purple spotting 

 being considerably bolder and more marked ; the lip, moreover, is smaller and 



