By Joseph Sabine, Esq. 



459 



The roots are rather large, ovate, and covered with a coarse 

 ragged pale-brown skin. The kinds described must be con- 

 sidered to possess the above characters unless their differ- 

 ences are particularly noted. 



Section I. 



The varieties in this have much resemblance to each other, 

 their blossoms having a pale ground colour, which may be 

 almost considered as grey, and the markings or lines are 

 tolerably distinct. 



1. C. Versicolor Gawleri. 



2. sirailis. 



1. C. versicolor Gawleri. This is the kind figured as 

 the type of the species in the Botanical Magazine, as above 

 referred to ; for the notice of it we are indebted, as I have 

 stated, to Mr. Bellenden Keb. It flowers sparingly, rather 

 late, and does not open its petals freely. The leaves are 

 few, narrow, short at first, but spread afterwards. The tube 

 of the flowers has six faint lilac lines. The outer petals 

 have a dull white ground, with three fine irregularly shaped 

 purple feathered stripes, the middle one the broadest and 

 darkest, the two exterior, and top of the middle ones, 

 feathered ; the inner petals have three narrow dark lines 

 accompanied with featherings, indistinctly marked on a white 

 ground, the markings becoming pale purple at the top ; the 

 insides of the petals are finely lined, feathered, and tinged 

 with lilac ; the markings, on the outer petals especially, are 

 subject to variation, being dissimilar in different flowers ; the 

 featherings are in some cases coarser than usual, and the upper 

 parts of the middle marks are sometimes particularly broad. 



