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okchidtGrower's manual. 



C. VENUSTUNl PARDINUM, ffort.— This variety on its first introduction was 

 two-tiowered, but many of the forms now called pardinum appear to produce but 

 one flower; it difliers chiefly in the dorsal sepal being of a purer white, and in 

 the lip being of a brighter colour. Blooms in the winter months. — Northern India. 



Ym.— Gard. C/iniii., 3rd sor., 1887, i. p. .382, f. 76 ; Floral -Voff., N.S., t. 51. 



C. VENUSTUM SPECTABILE, WlWam.H.-A very handsome form of this 

 useful winter-flowering species. The leaves are beautifully mottled with green ; 

 the flowers are medium sized, produced singly, and are far handsomer than 



those of the type ; the dorsal 

 sepal is white broadly striped 

 with green ; the petals greenish 

 white streaked with deeper 

 green, and tipped with rosy- 

 red ; and the lip greenish-yellow 

 tinged with rose. — Sylhet. 



Fig.— II «)■«(';•, Scl. Orcli. PL, 

 11. t. 21. 



C. VERNIXIUM, RcU. /.— 

 This is a hybrid of the stemless 

 gi'oup, raised between C. Argus 

 and C riUosum. The leaves 

 are as large as those of C.villo- 

 sHiii, but have tessellated mark- 

 ings very faintly developed ; 

 the scape is stout, covered with 

 short hairs ; the flowers present 

 a remarkaljle combination of 

 oclircous-brown, crimson, and 

 green, with fainter spots on the 

 ]ietals than in C. Argus, and 

 having the varnished surface 

 of IJ.riUosum ; the dorsal sepal 

 is light green, with darker 

 nerves, having rows of black 

 s])ots along their basal parts; 

 the petals are ligulate blunt 

 niidulate, with bristles on the 

 ujiper border, washed with 

 w;irm dark brown and shining ; 

 and the lip is light greenish- 

 olive, with a brown face and 

 conspicuous nervation. Eaised 

 by Mr. Sc'dcn.— Uardrii hybrid. 



C. VERVAETIANUM. — See 



C. KUIIY.VLK. 



cyPKIPEDIUM VE.X1LLA1!IUM. (Natural sizc .) 

 (I'loin the Clurdnwr.'!' Chroiiich.) 



C. VEXILLARIUM, Itchh. /.—This is an elegant hybrid, raised )jy Mr. Dominv, 



and is the result of a cross between (_'. Fairrieiinum and I '. barhatuiii, the flowers 



