288 ORCHID grower's manual. 



C. ORPHANUM, Rcltb.f.^-The parentage of this hybrid is not known, but it 

 is probably a cross between C. Bruryi and (!. harhatum. It was raised by Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons. Leaves distichous, some 5 to 6 inches in length and 1^ inch to 

 2 inches in breadth, channelled above, carinate beneath, light green, netted and 

 marmorated with dark olive-green on the upper side, pale green below ; scape 

 terminal, erect, orie-flowered,,deep brownish-purple, slightly hirsute, the bract 

 being very short ; flowers large and handsome ; dorsal sepal ovate, white, 

 tinged in the centre with bright emerald-green, and on the lateral margins 

 with rosy-purple ; it has a brownish-purple median band, with numerous equi- 

 distant smaller ones of the same hue ; lower sepal white, tinged with pale green, 

 with darker green veins ; petals greenish-purple, ivory-white on the borders, 

 and a broad brownish-purple median stripe, in addition the petals are slightly 

 freckled towards the base with black dots, and the margin ciliated with black 

 hairs ; lip obtusely ovate, deep rosy -purple, pale beneath. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Zindenia, v. t. 206 ; Jvvrn. <>f Uort., 1887, xv. p. 135, f. 16 ; Orchid Album, 

 X. t. i55. 



C. ORPHEUS, Rolfe. — This cross between C renusium and C. callosum is 

 described by Mr. Eolfe in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1891, ix. p. 39, as 

 follows: — '■ Leaves pale grey-green, tessellated with darker green blotches, 

 about 6 inches long by 1| to If inch wide ; dorsal sepal sub-orbicular, with acute 

 apex. If inch long by IJ inch wide, whitish-green, with twenty-three green nerves, 

 lower united sepals ovate, acute, 1 inch long, similar to dorsal one, but with 

 only six nerves ; petals ligulate, sub-deflexed, slightly falcate near apex, ciliate, 

 basal half whitish-green, with eight green nerves, passing into light rosy- 

 purple in apical half, and with four black warts near the middle of the outer 

 margin; lip sub-compressed. If inch long, dull deep maroon in front, paler 

 behind, infolded side lobes with a few light maroon wart-like spots on a pale 

 ground ; staminode broadly hippoorepiform, apex tri-cuspidate, pale green with 

 olive-green reticulated veins in centre." It was raised in the nurseries of 

 Messrs. Sander & Co. — Garden hybrid. 



C. ORESTES, Veitch. — A cross of doubtful parentage, which has not been 

 seen by us. " Upper sepal pale apple-green, with a broad white border, and 

 large red-brown spots along the veins ; lower sepal pale green ; petals brownish- 

 purple with a darker mid-vein, pale yellow green at the base; lip bright 

 vinous purple shaded with brown." — Garden hybrid. 



C. OSBORNEI, Hort. — This fine showy hybrid was raised by Mr. Osborne, 

 when gardener to the late H. J. Buchan, Esq., Southampton, and is a cross 

 between C. Harrisianwm superium and C. Spicerianum. It has large flowers. 

 " Lip crimson and reticulated ; petals of the same hue, generally, but with a 

 deeper median line, the edges green ; the dorsal sepal is white in the upper 

 part and streaked with crimson at the base." Flowers in yv'mter.— Garden 

 hybrid. 



C. PAGEANUM,JJc/i6./. — ^A hybrid raised by Mr. Page, of Bougival.near Paris. 

 It is a cross between C. auperbiens and C. Hooherae. "Leaves nearly glaucous, 

 with dark reticulations ; the red hairy peduncle is one-flowered ; upper sepal 

 elliptical, acute, with twenty- thre,"' green veins, a few of which are reddish at the 



