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CATTLEYA labiata; var. Mossiz. 
Mrs. Moss’s Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. Ord. ORcH1DACEX $ EPIDENDREZ. 
CATTLEYA. Botanical Register, vol. xi. fol. 953. 
C. labiata; sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis membranaceis undulatis multd 
latioribus, labello obovato erispo-undulato obtuso v. emarginato disco 
levi, pseudobulbis oblongis sulcatis. 
a. petalis lanceolatis undulatis, labelli disco sanguineo. 
C. labiata. Lindl. coll. bot. 1. 33. Gen. et Sp. orch. 116. Hooker exot. A. t. 
. 157. Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 1856. 
B. petalis oblongis subcrispis, labelli disco luteo sanguineo punctato aut 
icto. 
C. Moim. Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3669. 
A native of La Guayra, whence it was imported by the 
London Nurserymen in considerable quantity some time since; . 
and it is consequently dispersed through the country more 
plentifully than was imagiued when it first flowered in Mr. 
Moss’s garden at Liverpool. Since that period it has been 
sent me by several of my correspondents, and has appeared in 
the London exhibitions. The specimen from which the annexed 
figure was taken was communicated by Sir Philip Egerton, 
Bart., who bought it of Mr. Joseph Knight, in the King’s 
Road. 
Beautiful a plant as this is, and different as it sometimes 
appears to be from C. labiata, I am satisfied that it is a mere 
variety of that species, from which it differs principally in the 
lip being yellow, mottled with crimson, instead of deep blood 
red. The characters relied upon to separate it are —1. Its 
branching stem; 2. its furrowed pseudobulbs; 3. its broader 
sepals and petals and larger flowers; 4. its unguiculate petals; 
and 5. its colour: but none of these distinctions can be relied 
upon. 
