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petals broader at the point, blunt, acute, superior part with ten green con- 

 spicuous nerves, the mid-nerve nearly blackish, ' the anterior part of the lip 

 mauve-brown purple ; there are some black spots on the margin from the base 

 to the centre, and similar small black spots on the basilar part of the mid- 

 nerve ; lip shaped as in C. purpuratum, having a well-marked horn -like 

 apiculus on each side ; the retuse anterior mouth of the shoe deep brown, 

 superior part and anterior margin ochre-coloured, the superior part with dark 

 spots ; staminode f orcipate, with an apiculus between the two great protruded 

 shanks, ochre with some dark green nervations." — Garden hybrid. 



C. POLITUM, Bchh. /.—A very distinct and richly-coloured hybrid of the 

 acauloscent group, raised by R. Warner, Esq., Chelmsford. The leaves are 

 rather large, oblong acute, of a palish green, with numerous dark green 

 chequered markings. The flowers are equal to those of a good G. Argus ; the 

 dorsal sepal is ovate, acute, glossy, whitish with a, reddish wash, nerves green, 

 with a central bar of deep red from the base upwards ; the petals are linear- 

 oblong, 2| inches long, glossy, ciliated with black hairs, wine-red, greenish 

 towards the base, where they are marked with several Indian-purple warts ; 

 and the lip is narrowly pouch-shaped, suffused in front with purplish -red, 

 marked with numerous gi-een nerves, greenish on the sides, the inflexed margins 

 ochre-coloured with brown warts. It is a very free-blooming kind, flowering in 

 January and February. — Garden hybrid. 



'Fm.— Orchid Album, i. t. 36 ; Gard. Chroii., 3rd ser., 1887, 1. p. 763, f. 113 ; 

 Wariters Sd. Orch. PI., iii. t. 38. 



C. POLLETTIANUM, Rolfe. — "A compound hybrid raised from C. calophyllwm 

 fertilised with the pollen of C. oenanthum auperbum. The leaves are light green, 

 with reticulated veins of a darker shade, about 5 to 8 inches long by 1^ to 

 If inch broad ; dorsal sepal sub-orbicular, yellowish-green, broadly margined 

 with white, veined with crimson on the sides, with brown in the middle, and 

 with numerous chocolate blotches on the nerves of the centre and base ; petals 

 lixiear-oblong, light purple-brown, w^ith darker nerves and deep purple-brown, 

 marbled with darker spots, paler behind ; staminode semi-orbicular, the apex 

 with three broadly rounded teeth, brownish-green with a darker central boss " 

 (E. A. Eolfe, in Beichenbachia) . — Garden hybrid. 



Fig, — Journ. of Hurt., 1891, xxiii. p. 559, f. 101; RclolicTtbacMa, 2Qd ser., i. t. 43. 



C. POLYSTIGMATICUM, Bchb. /.—This hybrid was raised by R. H. 

 Measures, Esq., of Streatham, and is a cross between C. venustum and 

 G. Spicerianum. " Upper sepal as in G. Spicerianum, nerves broad with ra;mifi- 

 cations of purple ; lower sepal with a lightish ochre base, and with lines of 

 brownish-purple spots; petals green at the base, with numerous small blackish 

 spots, light reddish-brown from the middle to the apex, central vein brownish- 

 purple ; lip light brownish-purple with an ochre shade on the inferior median 

 area" (Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 406).— Garieii 

 hybrid. 



C. PORPHYREUM.— See C. Sedenii porphtreum. 



