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apex; lower sepal much smaller, oblong acute, with green veins, two of which 

 are red at the apex ; petals deflexed, ligiilate acute, ciliate, with green veins, on 

 a whitish ground that turns in the light to a reddish colour in the anterior third, 

 there are numerous Indian purple spots on the basilar and median portions ; 

 lip in the way of that of 0. superbiens, but narrower, two-horned at the mouth 

 of the sac, dark brown. Flowers during the summer months" (Eeichenbach, in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 264). — Garden hybrid. 



C. PARDINUNI, Rchb.f. — A beautiful Lady's Slipper of the stemless tessel- 

 lated set ; the leaves are ligulate, mottled with various shades of green on the 

 upper side, purplish beneath ; the flowers are rather large, and from two to 

 three are produced upon a spike ; the dorsal sepal is white striped with bright 

 green ; the petals are oblong ligulate, acute, the lower portion yellowish-green, 

 spotted with purplish-black warts, the upper end of a coppery reddish-purple, 

 the edges fringed with fine hairs ; and the lip pale j-ellow with gi-een veins. It 

 bears some resemblance to C. venustum. — Assam. 



Fig. — Moral 3Iag., 2nd ser., t. 51. 



C. PARIS, Molfe. — The parentage of this hybrid is not known with certainty, 

 but it is stated that C. bellatulum was the seed parent, which we are inclined to 

 believe unhesitatingly, while the pollen parent is stated to be C. Stonei. The 

 plant was bought by K. H. Measures, Esq., ainong a batch of seedlings. The 

 flowers are a creamy-yellow, the dorsal sepal flushed at the sides with purple, 

 and veined with maroon-purple ; the petals purplish at the extremities, spotted 

 with maroon-purple. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — OrclUd Review, i. p. 88, f. 6. 



C. PARISHU, Rchb.f. — A very distinct and noble-looking plant, with a habit 

 of growth like that of G. philippinense. The leaves are distichous, broadly 

 lorif orm, leathery, the apex obliquely obtuse, dark green above, paler below ; 

 the flower spike, bearing from three to six large flowers, is stout, often 2 feet 

 high, and hairy ; the flowers have ovate pale green and greenish straw-coloured 

 sepals, and drooping twisted petals 4 to 5 inches long, green with marginal 

 purple hairy warts at the base, the upper two-thirds deep purple with an obtuse 

 ciliated apex ; lip green stained with purple. It should be grown in the East 

 Indian house. — Mouhnein. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5791; Orcliid Album, il. t. 8C ; Gard. Citron., 1869, p. 814, 

 with fig. 



C. PAVONINUM, Rchb. /.—This hybrid was raised by D. 0. Drewitt, Esq., 

 and is a cross between G. venustum and C. Boxallii. The dorsal sepal is light 

 greenish bordered with white and veined with brown, yellowish at the base, 

 where there are some blackish blotches ; petals purplish-brown in the upper 

 halves, yellowish in the lower halves, with some brown spots of various sizes; 

 lip like that of G. venustum. — Garden hybrid. 



C. PEARCEl.— See C. caeicinum. 



C. PEETERSIANUM.— See 0. selligertjm Peeteesianum. 



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