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]ands collection at Streatham, we have seen a plant with many spikes which 

 bloomed continually for a year and seven months, and then they were cut off 

 the plant in order to allow it some rest. The flowers are larger and more 

 brilliantly coloured than the type. — Garden hybrid. 

 Stn . — C. porphyrcuvi . 



C. SEEGERIANUM, Sort— A cross between C. Spicerianum and C. Harris- 

 ianum. This is a distinct form, with long plain green strap-shaped leaves, 

 flowers large and showy, dorsal sepal less recurved than in G. 8;picerianum, 

 white suffused with bright rose. — Garden hyhrid. 



C. SELLIGERUM, Veitch. — A very desirable and distinct hybrid between 

 G. philippinense (laevigattmi) and C. harhatimi. The plant is of bold massive 

 and very free flowering habit, with broad thick shining faintly tessellated leaves, 

 as in C. philippinense. The flower scape is erect, blackish-crimson, pubescent, 

 and bears from two to three large flowers ; the dorsal sepal is white with broad 

 blackish-crimson veins ; the strongly ciliated petals are about 3 inches long, 

 deflexed, with a partial twist, vinous-red veined with crimson-purple, and having 

 several blackish marginal warts, especially on the upper side ; and the lip or 

 pouch is similar in shape to that of C. barhaium, but of a lighter red colour ; 

 flowers in summer and autumn. — Garden hybrid. 



'Fig.— VfUcJi, Cat., 1878, p. 13, with fig.; Gard. Chron.. U.S., xix. p. 776,1 133; 

 Florist and Pom., 1878, p. 85, with fig. ; Veitch's Man. Orcli. PL, iv. p. 97. 



C. SELLIGERUM MAJUS, Fciic/i,.— This noble hybrid is in every respect 

 superior to C selligerum. The leaves are much longer, broader, and stouter ; 

 the dorsal sepal 2 inches long and 2y inches broad, blush-white, distinctly 

 veined with rosy-purple, greenish at the base ; the petals are 3 to 3J inches 

 long, pale rosy-purple, distinctly veined with deep vinous-purple, the edges arc 

 also ciliated, and there are a few blackish warts on the upper margins; lip 

 large and bold, greenish-purple, suffused with brown; staminode bright green. 

 It flowers in May aiid June, and lasts a long time in perfection. It is a grand 

 variety for exhibition purposes. — Garden hyhrid 



Fig. — Lindenia, i. t. 22; Seiehenhaohia, ii. t. 54 ; L' Orchidophile, 1890, p. 272; 

 Orchid Album, xi. t. 483 



C, SELLIGERUM PEETERSIANUM, H. Williams.— Th\s hybrid is so closely 

 allied to C. selligerum that we can only consider it a variety. It was raised from 

 C. harhatum Wamerii and C. philippinense. — Garden hybrid. 



Syn. — C. Peetersianum, 



C. SELLIGERUM RUBRUM, Jibrf.— This variety is of free bold habit. Leaves 

 distichous, ligulate oblong, bluntish, thick, shining, keeled beneath, spreading, 

 greyish-green, faintly tessellated; scape erect, branched, pubescent, of a 

 purplish-crimson, bearing about three blossoms, each having at the base a con- 

 cave ovate bract ; flowers large, high coloured, and showy ; dorsal sepal 

 roundish ovate, white, flushed with dull red, and marked with numerous longi- 

 tudinal deep crimson-red bands or stripes, the apex incurved, the connate sepal 

 smaller and paler in colour; petals linear ligulate, attenuated at the ajpex, 

 distinctly ciliated, about 3 inches long, spreading, deflexed with a partial twist, 



