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CYCNOCHES CHLOROCHILON: FEMALE FLOWER. 
THE annexed figure represents a female flower of Cycnoches chlorochilon 
which recently appeared in the Kew collection, and is reproduced, natural 
size, from a photograph taken by Mr. C. P. Raffill. Although the species 
was described as long ago as 1838, the female was not recorded until July, 
1891, when it appeared in the collection of M. Houzeau de Lehaie, Hyon, 
Fig. 39. CYCNOCHES CHLOROCHILON: FEMALE FLOWER. 
Mons, Belgium, on a plant imported from.Caraccas, and somewhat, later 
with Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans (Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1891, il. p. 
69). In both cases the female only was borne, though males appeared on 
other plants from the same importation. Shortly afterwards, however, both 
sexes appeared on a plant in M. Houzeau’s collection (Rolfe, /. c., p. 394). 
The difference between the sexes was pointed out as follows: The male is 
