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ORCHID-GROWER S MANUAL. 



C. THIBAUTIANUM, Echb.f.—A cross between C. Harrisianum and C. insigne 

 Maulei. Leaves faintly tessellated; scape one-flowered, dorsal sepal pale green, 

 with a broad marginal border of pure white, dotted and spotted along the veins 

 with deep brown; inferior sepal smaller, pale green, sparingly dotted with 

 brown ; petals reddish-brown, bordered with bufl-yellow ; pouch reddish-brown, 

 passing to pale brown beneath. — Garden Ityhrid. 



C. TONKINENSE— See C. concolok TO.VKiXEysE. 





CYPEIPEDIUM TESSELLATCM POHPHYKEUM. 

 (From the Jovrnal of HnHicvlturc.') 



C. TONSUM, liclih. f. — Leaves large, tessellated with deep green, on a pale 

 green ground on the upper side, sparingly flushed with purple beneath; scape 

 tall, one-flowered, flowers large and bold, but much wanting in colour; dorsal 

 sepal broadly-cordate, greenish-white, streaked with veins of deep green ; 

 inferior sepal much smaller, but similar in colour ; petals greenish-white, veined 

 with deep green, and sparingly flushed with purple, and bearing a few small 

 spots of black ; pouch large and obtuse, green, tinged with brown. Blooms in 

 autumn. — Sumatra. 



C. VAN HOUTTEANUM, Jforf.— This hybrid appears to have been found 

 amongst a number of seedlings of C Vauiliierii. which flow^ered in the collection 

 of M. Jules do Cock, of Ghent, and was sold for £100 to M, Jules Hye, of Ghent, 



