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• G. superbiens pretty closely, but are less distinctly tesselUted, while the shape 

 of the flowers corresponds almost precisely to the same. The colours are 

 somewhat brijrhter than in that species generally, the veining of the upper 

 ■sepal and petals light purple rather than greett, the spots on the latter 

 smaller, and almost confined to their basal half; the shape of the staminode, 

 like that of the rest of the flower, is also but little modified. The influence 

 of the pollen parent, however, is very distinctly seen , in a broad, dark purple 

 band, which extends down the centre of the dorsal sepal, and a similar but 

 narrower one on each petal. It is named aftel' T. B. Haywood, Esq., of Wood- 

 hatch, Eeigate, an enlightened patron of horticulture, and the possessor of a 

 well-cultivated collection of Orchids" (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1889, v. 

 p. 428). — Garden liyhrid. \ 



FlB.—Journ. of Jlort., 1SS9, xviil. p. 17't, f. 26 ; id., 1889, xix. p. 510, f. 65. 



C. "TENNYSON," O'Brien. — A cross between C. oenanthum superbum and 

 C. Dayanum, the result being in the way of 0. Sarrisianum. The dorsal sepal 

 is white, faintly tinged with green at the base, veined with purple ; petals rosy- 

 purple at the base, pale rose at the extremities, the edges ciliated; pouch 

 purplish-rose ; staminode bright yellow. — Garden hybrid. 



C. TESSELLATUM, Bchh. f. — This fine hybrid resulted from crossing 

 G. barbatum ■with 0. concolor, and is described as follows : — "The leaves have 

 the form of those of C. concolor, and the marking of those of C. barbatum. 

 The bloom-stalk is longer than that of C. concolor, but not much. The flower 

 is at least a half larger than that of the just-named mother species. The 

 petals are narrower and longer, and they have a oiliate margin. The lip is 

 much more in the way of that of 0. barbatum, having on each side an inflexed 

 round lobe in lieu of the nearly falcate one of 0. concolor. The staminode 

 is also ■ quite that of G. barbatum, when the two sepals would be those of 

 G. concolor, providing the very projecting nervation was not that of G. barbatmn. 

 The ground colour of the flower is a certain whitish, with a greenish hue. 

 I do not see a trace of the characteristic, quite unique yellow of the Rev. C. 

 Parish's glorious discovery; the upper sepal is washed with the colour of 

 port wine ; the petals are washed with the same light port-wine colour, with 

 transverse bars and lines' of black dots; the lip is almost wholly brownish, 

 except the greenish-white under side, and the staminode is pallid, with 

 numerous brown and a few central green bars, covered with hairs " (Reichon- 

 bach, in Gardeners' Ghronicle, N.S., 1875, iv. p. 614). — Garden hybrid. 



C. TESSELLATUM PORPHYREUM, iJc7i6. /.—A cross between C'.coiico?or and 

 C. barbatum. It is one of the most distinct and beautiful hybrids we know, and 

 we have had it with as many as three flowers on a spike ; it is a very slow 

 growing plant, and therefore likely to be rare for a long time ; the leaves are 

 prettily tessellated, and the scape one to three flowered ; the flowers, whilst 

 partaking of the size and shape of the parents, have a ground colour of pale 

 yellow, and are heavily suffused with bright rosy-purple. Flowers in the 

 summer months. It was raised in the niirseries of Messrs. James Vcitcli 

 & Sons. — Garden hybrid. [For Illustration see page 308.] " 



JPlG.—Ziidcnia, i. t. 18 ; Journ. of Ilort., 1888, xvii. p. 382, 1 43.^ 



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