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glyphic markings which are usual in the renustum group; the peduncle is 

 strong and stiff, slightly hairy, Indian-purple in colour ; the upper rounded 

 apiculate sepal is differently coloured on the inside and on the outside 

 to C. Spicerianum, although the mid-line is Indian-purple on both sides; 

 inside it has white borders and a white zone descending from the apex 

 toward the inside of the median line, the heritage of C. Spicerianum ; there 

 are some green nerves passing from the base towards the middle, and which 

 are partly covered by dense Indian-purple spots and lines, a large area 

 on each side is suffused with a kind of purple ; the outside is very easily 

 described. It has three transverse zones, au apicular white one, a median purple, 

 the widest of the three, and a basilar green one ; this is quite novel. The lower 

 sepals are of course connate, they are elliptical acute, shorter than the lip, 

 light green ; the oblong, blunt, ciliate petals are divided by an Indian-purple 

 mid-line into an upper light purple-brown portion, only greenish at the very 

 base, and an inferior light green portion ; numerous lines, consisting of Indian- 

 purple spots, extend from the middle to the base. The lip itself has a very 

 blunt sac, and its anterior, prominent part is not very deep, blunt, horned, 

 (angled), apiculate in the middle, reddish-brown with a yellowish inferior part." 

 — Garden hybrid. 



'WlG.—Gard. Cliron., 3rd ser., 1889, v. p. 73, f. 10. 



C. PITCHERIANUM, Williams' Varieiy. — A splendid hybrid, the result of 

 a cross between G. Harrisianum superbum and C. Spicerianum magnifioum,. 

 Leaves distichous, broadly ligulate, rich green on the upper side, marbled with 

 a deeper green, paler beneath, where it is also ornamented with numerous 

 lines of reddish-brown, which proceed from the base upwards ; scape erect, 

 somewhat stout, of a purplish hue, slightly hairy, bearing a large ovate bract, 

 and a large and gorgeous flower ; the dorsal sepal is large and pure white, 

 faintly tinged with pale green at the base, the centre being marked with a 

 broad stripe of deep Indian-red, and the lower half beautifully blotched and 

 shaded with deep vinous purple, leaving the large upper part of the purest 

 white ; lower sepal smaller, pale green, veined with deep green ; petals prettily 

 undulated on the upper margin, where they are also fringed with black hairs, 

 the whole surface being of a light purplish-brown, spotted near the base with 

 deep purple, and having a dark central band ; lip large and rounded, reddish- 

 brown with a deep yellow border, greenish-yellow beneath ; staminode large, 

 rosy-purple, with green centre. It was raised in our nurseries. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



Fig. — B. S. Williams jf' Son's Catalogue of Xew Plants, 1892, p. 8 ; OrcliUl Album, 

 X. t. 453 ; Journ. of Sort., 1892, xxiv. p. 101, f. 15. 



C. PLUNERUM, Bchh. f. — This is supposed to be a hybrid between C. 

 venusium and C. villosum, but the late Professor Beichenbach appears to have 

 doubted this. He described it in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 40, 

 as follows : — " Leaves shaped nearly as in C venustum, light green, with few 

 and distant darker scattered hieroglyphical signs on the upper side ; peduncle 

 reddish-brown with very short mauve hairs ; bract much shorter than the 

 stalked ovary; upper sepal nearly triangular, yet rounded on both sides, 

 whitish with remarkably dark green nerves (seventeen) ; lateral sepals forming 

 a much smaller body, white, with seven long green nerves and a few short ones ; 



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