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being exactly intermediate. It is remarkable for its dwarf habit ; the leaves 

 lire pale green, with a few darker markings; the flowers are large, with the 

 dorsal sepal whitish tinged with green towards the base, suffused with light 

 purple, and marked with port-wine coloured veins; the petals are deflexed, 

 bluntly acute, the edges slightly wavy and ciliate, purplish tinged with green, 

 and furnished with a few warts ; and the lip is large, light brown veined and 

 tinged with green. It is generally a summer-flowering plant, but we have had 

 it in flower as late as December and Janiiary. — Garden hybrid. 



FiG.—VfitcJi , Cat., 1879, p. 10, with fig. ; Florht and. Pom., 1 880, p. 13, with fig. ; Gat-rl. 

 Cliron.. U.S., xix. p. 781, f. 13.j (marked sdli-g'erum by error) ; T/tc Garden, v. p. 103, with 

 fig. ; rOrcliidophile, 1883, p. 600 : Gard. Chron., 3rcl ser., 1887, i. p. 456, f. 87 ; Vf itch's 

 Man. Orcli. PI., iv. p. 100; Lindnila, vii. t. 309; Orcldd Album, x. t. 417; Orchid 

 J?ri-icic, i. p. 297, f. 15. 



C. VEXILLARIUM GRANDIFLORUM, Hort.—This variety is much stronger 

 in its habit of growth than the preceding, and the flowers are larger and 

 brighter in colour. 



C. VILLOSUM, Lindley.—A desirable species of the acaulescent group. 

 The leaves are of a light green colour, freckled on the lower exterior part with 

 dark spots ; the scapes are villose, about 1 foot high, producing solitary flowers, 

 often measuring 5 inches across, and having a tine glossy appearance over their 

 Avhole surface, which is orange-red intermixed with light green and dark purple, 

 the dorsal sepal being green. It blossoms during January and February, but 

 may, by retarding, be kept back till April and May, and continues from six to 

 eight weeks in perfection. This makes a fine subject for exhibition, on account 

 of its distinct colour, and its long continuance in flower. The plant succeeds 

 well in the cool house with the Odontoglossums, &c. — Moulmein and Tonglioo 

 Mountains, Bhotan. \_For Ilhtsiratioii seepage 812.] 



Fig.— Warner. Scl. Orch. Pl..ii. t. 30 ; Pescatoreu. t. 48 ; Florr ilex Scrrcn, t. 1475 ; 

 VW. Hort., 1. 126 ;' Fhiri!.t and Pom., 1870, p. 211, with fig. ; 2d., 1882, p. 35, with fig. ; The 

 Garden, iii. p. 415. with fig.; Lindrnin, iii. t. 132; Veitcli.s Man. Orch. Pl.,iy.Tp. r>5; 

 (iiird. dtron., 3rd ser., 1890, viii. p. 688, 1 133 ; Tlic Garden, 1891, xxxix. p. 568, t. 810. 



C. VILLOSUM AUREUM, WiUiums.—A remarkably distinct and fine variety. 

 The flowers are 6 inches across, and have the upper part of the dorsal sepal 

 bright yellow, broadly margined with white. — Moulmein. 



C. VILLOSUM BOXALLI.— See C. Boxalm. 



C. VILLOSUM GORTONI, O'Brien.— Is said to diSer from the type by the 

 colour of its flowers. "The upper sepal has a narrow purplish-crimson band, 

 extending up the middle to the bright emerald green apex, and a clear white 

 margin, the whole of the remaining svirface being flaked and tinged with light 

 purple, and veined with darker purple." Named after Dr. Gorton, of Maida 

 Vale. 



C. VILLOSUM MEASURESIANUM, O'Brien.— The upper sepal has a white 

 ciliate margin, below that the colour is pm-ple on a greenish-yellow ground, the 

 base having black blotches on a glossy purple body colour ; the petals have the 

 dark shining Indian yellow on their upper halves as in ordinary C. villosmn, 



