The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . ls and petals white,narrowish ; lip white, with a forked, yellow band in the centre,and two orange-striped crests on the disk ; racemes erect, spring-ing with the leaves from the apex of the pseudo-bulbs. I. sword-shaped, striated. Pseudo-bulbs tall, oblong, angled. Tongoo,Darjeeling (8000ft. to 9000ft.), 1837. (B. M. 5001.) C. elegans (elegant). A s^ixonym o! C. Huettneriana. C. fimbrlata (fringed). Jl., sepals yellowish-green or browniish,ovate-lanceol
The century supplement to the dictionary of gardening, a practical and scientific encyclopaedia of horticulture for gardeners and botanists . ls and petals white,narrowish ; lip white, with a forked, yellow band in the centre,and two orange-striped crests on the disk ; racemes erect, spring-ing with the leaves from the apex of the pseudo-bulbs. I. sword-shaped, striated. Pseudo-bulbs tall, oblong, angled. Tongoo,Darjeeling (8000ft. to 9000ft.), 1837. (B. M. 5001.) C. elegans (elegant). A s^ixonym o! C. Huettneriana. C. fimbrlata (fringed). Jl., sepals yellowish-green or browniish,ovate-lanceolate. 3in. long; petals tiliform ; lip yellow, streakedwith reddish-brown, the mid-lobe fringed, scape lin. to 2in. long,one-flowered. October and Xovember. I. sessile, 2in. to , lanceolate. Pseudo-bulbs ovoid-oblong, ^in. to liin. and China. (B. R. 868.) C. flavida (yellowish). ./?. yellow, ^in. across, sub-erect; scapeslender, eight- to ten-flowered. Spring. I. 3in. to 6in. long,petiolate, narrow-lanceolate, acuminate. Pseudo-bulbs lin. to2in. Ions;, distant, on a slender, scaly rhizome. Sikkim Himalaya,Ac, Fig. 273. OrLOCYNK cristata alda. C. flexnosa (flexuous). Jl. white, with a slight yellow stain acrossthe middle of the lip, extended as a narrow line on either side ofthe disk to near the base, at which point the lip is very sharplyconstricted, producing a narrow, transverse channel , 1892. C. Foerstermanni (Foerstermanns.) /. white, with someyellowish-brown on the disk of the lip ; sepals and petals ligulate,acute; lip trifid, the lateral lacinire rounded, the middle onerounded and apiculate; peduncles sometimes cartilaginous, ribbed, lijft. long, 3in. or more wide, on veryshort petioles. Sunda Islands, 1887. C. faliginosa (sooty). Jl. expanding one at a time, 2in. across ;sepals and petals brownish-white, with a rosy tinge ; lip similarlycoloured, the mid-lobe deep reddish-brown ; racemes shorterthan the leave
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