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of plants. A temperature that averages about five degrees higher 

 than that afforded Odontoglossums is admirably suited to the 

 Cymbidiums here described. 



Best Species 



C. EBURNEUM comes from the hills of Northern India and is 

 found at a considerable elevation. The long, narrow, grassy 

 leafage is gracefully curved, and the fairly large flowers are borne 

 in twos or threes on erect spikes. The flowering season is late 

 Winter or Spring, and the fragrant blooms, pure white, with a 

 yellow band and crest on the lip, are very beautiful and serviceable. 

 A large specimen carrying a dozen or more spikes is a fine picture. 



C. GiGANTEUM flowers in the Winter, the long spikes carrying 

 from six to fifteen fragrant blooms, that are yellowish green, 

 striped with tawny red, and have a yellow, crimson marked lip. 

 This and C. grandijiorum do not flower so freely as C. Lowianum. 



C. GRANDIFLORUM is often grown under the old and erroneous 

 title of C. Hookerianum. It has flowers five inches across, sepals 

 broad, yellowish green, spotted at the base with brown-purple; 

 lip light yellow, spotted and speckled with red and crimson. 

 There are sometimes as many as a dozen flowers on a spike. 



C. INSIGNE is a charming species that has lately become very 

 popular by reason of its grace and adaptability to cultivation. It 

 was found in Annam early in 1 901, in ravines, at an altitude of 

 from 4000 feet to 5000 feet. The narrow leaves are three feet 

 long, and the erect spikes rise four feet high and upwards, bearing 

 about a dozen flowers (more or less according to the strength of the 

 plant) at the upper portion. Each bloom is three or four inches 

 across, and has white, pink, or rosy sepals and petals, spotted right 

 at the base with red ; the lip is broad, three-lobed, usually of the 

 same colour as the sepals, or darker, and freely marked with bright 



