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CÁTTLEY A* guttáta. 
Spotted Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncnipzx Juss.—(Introduction to the natural system of 
Botany, p. 262.) 
CATTLEYA.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 953. 
C. guttata; floribus carnosis, sepalis lineari-oblongis obtusis, petalis con- 
formibus paulo latioribus undulatis, labelli trilobi lobis lateralibus ovatis 
obtusis : intermedio cuneato obcordato disco tuberculato, foliis concavis, 
spathá obsoletá. 
Caulis teres, squamis membranaceis fuscis, arcte appressis vestitus, nullo 
modo tuberosus, palmaris v. ultra, diphyllus. Folia carnosa, oblonga, con- 
cava, patentia, apice oblique emarginata. Racemus spathá nullá, 4-5-florus, 
erectus, rachi terete maculatd. Bractew brevissima, acute, scariose. Flores 
pallide virides, sanguineo guttati. Labelli lobi laterales albi, intermedius 
purpureus, lineis disci purpurei tuberculatis. 
This beautiful species was sent to the Horticultural So- 
ciety from Brazil by the Right Honourable Robert Gordon, 
along with other interesting plants. The spotting of the 
flower is remarkably different from any thing that has yet 
been seen in the same genus. 
It may be interesting to cultivators to know that what 
are called the stems of this genus, and indeed of many 
other Orchideous plants, that is to say, the erect stalks 
that bear the leaves, are analogous to tubers, and really 
the branches of a rhizoma, or prostrate stem, which creeps 
upon the surface of the ground, resembling a root, and that 
consequently each of the leaf-bearing branches may be 
safely cut off with a portion of the rhizoma attached, for 
the purpose of propagation. The gardener of Mr. Harrison, 
of Liverpool, has practised this method with great success. 
J. L. 
* See fol. 1172. 
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