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C OENANTHUM, BM. /.—This plant is the result of a cross between 

 C. insigne Maulei and C. Harriaianum. The loaves are ligulate, tri-dentate at 

 the apex, darls green; the scape is covered with dark hairs, and bears a 

 solitary medium-sized flower ; the dorsal sepal is broad, whitish-green at the 

 base, with crimson-purple nerves, marked, as in (J. insigne Maulei, with rows 

 of crimson-purple coloured blotches; the petals are port-wine colour, flushed 

 with violet, yellowish, with dark blotches towards the base ; the lip also is port- 

 wine colour. Raised by Mr. Seden. — Oarden hybrid. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, viii. t. 379. 



C. OENANTHUM SUPERBUM — This fine variety was raised by Messrs. 

 J. Veitoh & Sons, and resulted from the reversed cross of the preceding. 

 The leaves are distichous, ligulate, and deep green, faintly tessellated; 

 scape erect, clothed with a tomentum of dark purplish hairs, and bearing a 

 single large and highly-coloured flower on the apex ; dorsal sepal deep vinous 

 red at the base and in the centre, through which run numerous spotted lines 

 of rosy purple, the margins and upper portion passing into bright purplish- 

 mauve, the outer margin white ; lower sepal greenish-white, spotted on the 

 veins with blackish-purple ; petals deep yellowish-brown, darkest on the upper 

 half; lip large, broadly obtuse, rich deep port-wine colour on the exterior, 

 yellowish within, freely dotted with reddish-purple. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindcni-a, i. t. 33 ; Seviie Hurt. Beige, 1885, p. 233 ; JleieJienbachia, i. t. 38 ; 

 Joiirn. ofHm-t., 1«86, xii. p. G2, f. H ; Veitch's Man. Ordi. PL, iv. p. 93 : Orchid Alhwiii, 

 ix. t. 420. 



C. OENONE, Uolfe. — This hybrid is the result of a cross between C. liookerau 

 and (J. superhiens, and was first raised in Messrs. Sander & Co.'s nurseries at 

 St. Albans, and subsequently by Mr. Alfred Bleu, of Paris, who named it 

 (J. Hookero-superhiens, but as we believe the former name to be that of which 

 the first description was given, the latter will have to be relegated to the 

 synonymy. The leaves are much in the way of C. Hookerae. " Dorsal sepal is 

 ovate, acute, light green in the centre and base, suffused with pale purple on 

 both sides, and nearly white on the margin ; the nerves of a green colour and 

 about twenty-three in number ; the petals are lanceolate oblong, of a light 

 green colour below passing into rosy-purple in the distal third, densely spotted 

 with purple-brown, except at the extreme apex, tlie margin ciliate and a 

 little crenulate ; the lip is much like that of (J. superbicns, and is brownish- 

 purple in front, paler and greener behind " (R. A. Rolfc, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 3rd ser., 1890, vii., p. 260). Flowers in late autumn. — Garden hybrid. 



Syn. — C. HooliAiro-s, 



C. OENO-SUPERBIENS, Hort. iaiurence.— This beautiful hybrid was raised 

 and exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., before the Royal Horticultural 

 Society, on September 12th, 1893. We had not the a;ood fortune to see this 

 splendid novelty, but a glance at our illustration and the following description 

 from the Journal of Horticulture, will give our I'eaders an idea of its merits : — 

 " The prevailing colour is a brownish-red, this suffusing the petals and lip ; the 

 former are bold and spreading, the latter being somewhat pointed; the dorsal 

 sepal is broad and imposing, it is heavily lined with chocolate dots and sufEused 

 with rose margined with, white."^ — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Jourii. of Hort., 18V3, xxvii. p. 269, f. 3S. 



