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C. REICHENBACHIANUM.-See C. longiiolium. 



C. RETICULATUM, Bchb. f. — This species was discovered by Gustav Wallis 

 on the borders of the river Zamora, in Ecuador. According to the late Professor 

 Reichenbach, it has affinity with C. Boissierianum. It should prove of great 

 use to the hybridists. — Ecuador. 



Fig. — Lindeiiia, i. t. 10. 



Syn . — Seleni;pcdlum ret icnlatii m . 



C. RICHARDSONI, Hort—A beautiful novelty exhibited at the Drill Hall on 

 October 10th, 1893, by A. J. HoUington, Esq., Forty Hill, Enfield. It is a cross 

 between C. Lawrenceanum and C. Hookerae. The dorsal sepal is broad and flat, 

 green at the base, and rich rosy-purple at the edges and tip, covered with many 

 deep purple lines ; petals rosy-purple at the extremities, greenish at the base, 

 covered with a few wart-like shining spots near the upper and lower edge ; 

 a purple median line runs half the length of the petals ; pouch light brown, 

 greenish at base. — Garden hybrid. 



C. ROBUSTIUS, Behh. /.—This is a hybrid raised by Mi-. Horn, Baron 

 Nathaniel de Rothschild's Orchid grower, and is the result of a cross between 

 6'. Sedeni and G. longifolium. It was also raised by us independently. Being 

 the reversed cross from G. calurum it has consequently great affinity with that 

 hybrid. " The green leaf is 2 inches broad by IJ foot in length ; peduncles very 

 strong, branched, dark brown, hairy ; bracts nearly or quite equal to the dark 

 purple downy ovaries ; upper sepal triangular, purple outside, whitish, bordered 

 and striped with purple inside; side sepals navicular, inflated, oblong-acute, 

 outside purple with a white part, white with purple margin on the inside ; 

 petals purple, with a white central space on the inside, longer than the upper 

 sepal, much narrower, and undulate towards the apex, bent downwards ; lip with 

 two broad involved basilar lobes, with one argute blunt-compressed lobe on 

 each side over the mouth, with a broad, nearly retuse sac, whose border is 

 toothed (!), purple, involved part white, with numerous purple spots ; staminode 

 transverso-pandurate, white, with purple freckles, bearded on the outer border " 

 (Reichenbach, in Oardenera Chrnnide, 3rd ser., 1889, v. p. 394). — Garden hybrid. 



C. ROEBELINII, Rchb. f. — This fine plant is a near neighbour of C. pMlippi- 

 nense, according to Professor Reichenbach, but the leaves are narrower, and the 

 scape more hairy ; the dorsal sepal is narrow, whitish, with five long and three 

 very short dark purple lines; the lip is light yellow, the staminode light ochre. 

 This plant appears to have been first bloomed in this country by Mr. Cypher, of 

 Cheltenham, by whom it was exhibited at the Regent's Park Exhibition in May, 

 1884 ; it was introduced by Mr. Sander through his collector, M. Roebelin, who 

 states that the plant is found near the sea, growing on stones without any 

 shade, the strongest and most compact plants being those which are entirely 

 exposed to the full sun. — Philippine Islands. 



C. ROEBELINII CANNARTIANUM, Hort.—A fine variety with large flowers, 

 having the inferior sepals divided, instead of united as in the type ; it is named 

 after the late M. F. de Oannart d'Hamale, of Malines, Belgium, who possessed 

 one of the finest collections of East Indian Orchids in Belgium. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ill. t. 141. 

 SYN. — C. cannartianviii: 



