282 orchid-grower's manual. 



C. NlEASURESIANUiV, Williams.— This distinct and splendid hybrid is a 

 cross between C. villoaum and C. renusium, and was named in honour of 

 R. H. Measures, Esq. It is of compact growth, with foliage about 6 to 8 inches 

 in length, of a shining dark green colour, the under side being marked with 

 purple; the flower scape is purple and hairy, as in U. venustum, ; dorsal sepal 

 ovate lanceolate, yellow margined with white, and veined with yellowish-green; 

 petals similar in shape to 0. villosum, of a light brown-purple, changing to 

 bright orange, suffused on the upper half with purple, and possessing the same 

 varnished appearance, which is such a marked feature in that species; lip large, 

 orange, tinted and veined with purplish-brown. It blooms during the winter, 

 producing its blossoms very freely, which continue in perfection two and three 

 months, a fact that makes it doubly useful, as at this period of the year all 

 flowers are in great request. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Albmii, vii. t. 304 ; Juurn. of Hurt., 188S, xvii. p. 47, f. 5. 



C. MEIRAX, Rchb.f. — A distinct and beautiful small-growing hybrid, raised 

 by R. Warner, Esq., Broomfield, Chelmsford. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, faintly mottled with transverse markings above, and of a wine-purple 

 beneath. The flowers are medium-sized, on dark purple hairy scapes ; the 

 dorsal sepal is broad ovate, ciliate at the base, blush-white with green and 

 purple stripes or nerves ; the petals are linear-oblong, ciliate, purplish-crimson 

 with green nerves ; and the glossy lip is yellowish-green in front, veined and 

 barred with crimson-purple, the point margined with deep wine-purple. It 

 blooms during the winter and spring months, as it completes its growth, and 

 the flowers last six weeks or more in perfection. — Oa-rden hybrid. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, ii. t. 9.'). 



C. MELANOPHTHALIV.UM, Rchb. /.—One of Mr. B. Warner's fine hybrids. 

 It is a free-growing, free-blooming variety of the dwarf distichous-leaved 

 group, the leaves in this case being of a pale dull green with coarse elongate 

 reticulations of a darker green. The flowers are medium-sized, with green 

 scapes clothed with purplish down, the dorsal sepal being whitish flushed with 

 Indian purple towards the base, and having green nerves ; the petals are glossy, 

 liuear-oblong, acute, the upper half Indian purple with green nerves, the lower 

 half a much paler tint of the same colour, and having several blackish wart-like 

 spots on the base and margins, which latter are strongly ciliated. It flowers 

 during the winter and spring months. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Orohid Alhim, iii. t. 100. 



C. MEIVIORIA MOENSI, L. Lind.—A fine hybrid raised by the late Mr. J. 

 Moens, of Lede. The parentage is uncertain, but judging from the plate in the 

 Lindenia we would say it is a cross between C. Spicerianum and C. hirsutisaimum. 

 The dorsal sepal is very largo, obovate, of an intense rosy-purple, with a broad 

 median bar of deeper purple, and a narrow white border ; the petals are rosy- 

 purple with a dark purple median line, and many lines of spots of a lighter 

 purple, green at the margins near the base, the upper margin undulate and 

 ciliate ; pouch wide, shining rosy -purple. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindenia, viii. t. 361. 



