12 THE |ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1916, 
There is a third, rarer type of C. insigne, characterised by the blotches 
on the dorsal sepal being confluent into one large brown area, as in the 
variety Bohnhofianum, whose history was given in vol. ii. pp. 40, 98, of 
which the dorsal sepal is chestnut brown in its basal half, followed by a 
broad green zone, and this again by a broad white margin. To this type 
belongs var. Lagere (p. 11, fig. 9), which flowered with: Messrs. Lager 
& Hurrell, New Jersey, about seven years ago. In this case the dorsal 
Fig. 10. C. INsSIGNE Oppity. 
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sepal was described as reddish dark brown, slightly suffused towards the 
edges with greenish yellow, and with four or five rose purple marks at the 
extreme upper part of the blotch, the whole being encircled with a pure 
white band. 
The variety Oddity (p. 12, fig. 10) isa freak rather than a variety 
proper, as is proved by its occasionally producing a flower of the normal 
form, as in the plant figured. Its peculiarity is due to the petals being 
modified into a pair of additional lips, which clasp the normal lip, and the 
