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1919 
* CÁTTLEYA intermédia; var. pallida. 
Pale-flowered intermediate Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OrcHIDACER, $ EPIDENDRES, 
CATTLE Y A.—Supra, vol. 11. fol. 953. 
C. intermedia ; folis oblongis emarginatis cauli aqualibus, sepalis petalisque 
lineari-oblongis subsqualibus subundulatis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo 
lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato : laciniis lateralibus ovatis ob- 
tusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato denticulato. 
a. floribus roseis. 
C. intermedia. Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2851. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 117. 
B. floribus subalbis rubescentibus, disco labelli sanguineo. 
— This very pretty Cattleya was imported from the Brazils 
some years since by the Hortigulinral Society, in whose 
Garden the drawing was made so long: since as June 1834. 
The mixture of white and crimson in its flowers gives it a 
beautiful appearance, and renders it much more interesting 
than the original variety, which is too like C. Loddigesii. 
The only wild specimens I am acquainted with are in 
Sir Wm. Hooker's basin collected near Buenos Ayres 
by Mr. Tweedie, and sent home with the following note :— 
“This is by far the handsomest of. the tribe in this country, 
and grows equally well on the sea-beaten rock, and the 
moss-covered tree in the heart of the forest. It is to be 
found in bloom at all seasons. There are many varieties of 
it; their colour pink and crimson.” I suspect, however, 
“that Mr. Tweedie confounds different things, and that 
several species of Cattleya are to be found in the neighbour- 
hood of Buenos Ayres. “One at least I-am able to describe 
* See folio 1172. 
