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vinous-crimson, veined with crimson-purple, and having several blackish hairy- 

 warts, especially on the upper edge ; lip oblong, bluntly pouch-shaped, spread- 

 ing at the upper edge, which is rounded behind, greenish and slightly veiny, 

 the anterior portion of a deep crimson or vinous-red ; staminode obcordate 

 with an apiculus, pale reddish green, deflexed. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fig. — Orcldd Aliiim, vi. t. 255 (C. selligeruni). 



C. SIAMENSE, Bolfe.—" The leaf is linear-oblong, 6 inches long, 1| inch 

 broad, grey-green, somewhat glaucous above, and tessellated with dark green 

 nerves, very glaucous below ; scape 14 inches high, dark purple-brown, 

 pubescent ; bract acute, 1 inch long ; ovary 2f inches, purple-brown ; dorsal 

 sepal broadly ovate, acute, IJ inch long; light green in the centre and base, 

 passing into light purple, and thence into a broad white margin ; the nerves 

 dark green, seventeen in number, and the margin reflexed ; lower sepal smaller, 

 narrower, pale green, with six darker nerves ; petals ligulate, slightly deflexed, 

 m inches long, 8 lines broad, ciliate, light green, with twelve darker nerves, 

 with about six blackish warts on upper margin, the distal third passing into 

 pale purple ; the lip 2 inches long ; the pouch ellipsoidal, sub-oompressed, pallid 

 behind and at apex, with small dusky spots, purple-brown in front, the infolded 

 basal lobes meeting at their edge, pale whitish-green, with numerous small, 

 and a few larger purple-brown spots and warts " (E. A. Eolfe, in Oardeners' 

 Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1890, vii. p. 161). — Siam. 



C. SMITHII, Hort. — This handsome hybrid was obtained by crossing C. Lan^- 

 renceanum with 0. ciliolare. It was exhibited at the Drill Hall, on October 10th, 

 1893, by A. J. Hollington, Esq., Forty Hill, Enfield. The dorsal sepal is broad, of 

 a rich rosy-purple, passing into white near the tip, and covered with rich deep 

 purple longitudinal veins ; petals purplish-brown at the extremities, greenish 

 towards the base, covered with wart-like spots, and hairy at the edges ; pouch 

 brown with a purplish tinge. — Garden hybrid. 



C. SOUTHGATENSE, Hort. — This splendid hybrid is the result of a cross 

 between C. bellatulum and 0. Harrisianum, and resembles most the first-named 

 parent, but is a great improvement on that plant, the flowers being larger and 

 holder in all their parts, yellowish- white in colour, and densely blotched with 

 darkest purple. — Garden hybrid. 



Ym.—Journ. of Hort., 1892, xxv. p. 39, f. 6. 



C. SOUTHGATENSE SUPERBUM, Hart.— A superior variety was exhibited 

 by Thos. Statter, Esq., Stand Hall, Manchester, on November 14th, 1893, before 

 the Koyal Horticultural Society, when it obtained a first-class certificate. 



C. SPICERIANUM, Bchb: f. — One of the most distinct and beautiful species 

 of the stemless group of this large and rapidly increasing genus, and ohe so 

 highly appreciated by Orchid-lovers, that at an auction sale which took place 

 a few years ago a plant realised 100 guineas. It has been named in honour of 

 H. Spicer, Esq., Woodlands, Godalming, who first introduced it to England. In 

 growth it somewhat resembles C. insigne; the leaves are few, distichous, linear- 

 oblong, acute, keeled, dark lurid green, the sheathing base slightly spotted with 



