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C. " LA FRANCE," Sort. — A garden hybrid, between C.niveum and C.nitens. 

 The plant is of dwarf compact habit, having leaves some 4 inches long, beautifully 

 tessellated with dark green. upon a light green ground, plain light green beneath ; 

 the flower is some 4 inches across ; dorsal sepal snow-white, with a tinge of lemon 

 at the base, freely spotted in the centre with magenta ; lower sepal white, faintly 

 spotted ; petals broad, pure white, flushed with carmine in the basal half ; lip 

 medium sized, pure white. This very beautiful form comes to me from Messrs. 

 Seeger & Tropp's Orchid Nursery, Dulwich. It is certainly the most charming 

 hybrid of the niveum group I have yet seen " ( W. H. Grower, in The Garden, 1892, 

 xli. p. 48). — Oarden hybrid. 



Fig. — Le Monitmtr (VHort'icnlture, 1892, March, p. .'Si (plate). 



C. LATHAMIANUM, Ec7i6. /.— " This hybrid, between C. villosum (male) and 

 C. Spicerianum (female), was raised by and has recently bloomed with Mr. W. B. 

 Latham, Curator of the Botanic Gardens, Birmingham, who kindly sent me a 

 good peduncle, and whose name it duly bears. It is one of those hybrids which 

 produce flowers with the characters of both parents. You might call the flowers 

 those of G. villosum with the median sepal of 0. Spicerianum. The leaves are 

 stated to be exactly like those of the last named species. The flower was a 

 facsimile of that of C villosum in its general shape and in its size; the median 

 sepal, however, is rather that of G. SpicerianuTii, white, with a dark mid-line 

 of purple, green at the base, with a few lines, cuneate elliptic apioulate, with 

 replicate sides ; petals light greenish ochre-coloured outside, with a dark mid- 

 line and brown margins undulate near the apex. Inside, the superior part is 

 light ochre-coloured at the base, then dark brown to the top, greenish at the 

 apex and lower sides ; dorsal sepal ouneate-oblong, minutely acute, greenish, 

 shorter than the lip, which is like that of C. villosiim, though it is of a lighter 

 greenish ochre-colour ; staminode nearly square, as in G. villosum, with red hairs 

 at the base, white borders on the side, retuse and most obscurely apiculate and 

 with a green knob in front of the apex " — (H. G. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' 

 Ghronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 360). — Garden hybrid. 



FiG.—Journ. of Ilovt., 1889, xviii. p. 175, f. 27. 



C. LATHAMIANUM INVERSUM, Sander. —This was raised by C. L. Ingram, 

 Esq., of Godalming. " It is the reverse cross of the preceding, C. villosum being 

 the seed parent, and 0. Spicerianum the pollen parent. Its chief difference is 

 that the dorsal sepal has more conspicuous and longer lines and dots of colour" 

 (E. A. Eolfe, in Beichenhachia, 2nd ser., i. t. 10). — Garden hybrid. 



C. LAWREBEL, Lawrence. — One of the most distinct and beautiful hybrids that 

 has ever come before the Orchid world. It was raised by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., at Burford Lodge, and is a cross between G. Lamrenceanum and G. bella- 

 tulum. The leaves resemble those of the first named parent. The dorsal sepal 

 is 2 inches broad, magenta-purple veined with deep maroon-purple and margined 

 with pure white with a vestige of greenish pigment at the base ; petals more 

 than 2 inches long and 1 inch broad, of a lovely rosy-purple, which becomes 

 intensified near the extremities, and passes into green in the upper halves 

 near the base, veined with brownish-purple, the nerves covered by lines of a 

 few large and many smaller spots of an intense blackish-purple, edges slightly 



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