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the lower halves being strangely mottled with purple on a light greenish-yellow 

 ground; the labellun is formed as in O. BoxctUi, creamy-white with the upper 

 portion of the face rosy-purple. It was named in honour of R. H. Measures, 

 Esq., of Streatham. 



CYritlrEDU'M VILLOSUjr. 

 (From the Giircle/icrs' Vhiuniii'le.') 



C. VIPANI, 7Jo//V. — A h3bri(l l}etwcen ('. pliil'ipjiinensc and (.'. nircum, raised 

 by Captain Vipan, of Wansford. "Theliii is ])ure white, except a few minute 

 dots on the side lobes, and a faint trace of yellow ou the nerves ; the sepals 

 and petals are also white, with a trace of yellow-green at extreme base, liut the 

 upper sepal has eleven, and thepetaLs each nine longitudinal stripes of bright 

 liurple ; the lower sepals are but faintly striped. As to shape, the upper sepal 

 is exactly ovate, sub-obtuse, 1| inch long, by I5 inch l)road ; the petals linear- 

 oblong, a little narrower upwards, and sub-obtuse, 2} inches long, by J inch 

 broad ; the lip laterally compressed, as in the mother plant, otherwise strongly 



