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CATTLEYA granulosa ; var. Russelliana. 
The Duke of Bedford’s Rough-lipped Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Orcnipacex. $ MaLaxeæ—LzæLianx, Veg. Kingdom, 
p. 181. ined. 
CATTLEYA. Botanical Register, vol. 11. fol. 953. 
C. granulosa. Supra, 1842. £. 1. 
Var. Russelliana; foliis ovatis, pedunculis trifloris, floribus multo majoribus, 
petalis magis lanceolatis, labelli ungue angustiore. 
Some fatality seems to have attended this beautiful plant 
in our gardens. It was sent to Sir W. Hooker from Woburn, 
as a Brazilian Orchid; but we can find no evidence to shew 
that it is a native of even the Southern hemisphere. At 
Syon, whence by permission of His Grace the Duke of 
Northumberland our specimen was supplied, it is said to have 
been received from Dr. Wallich, in 1839, which is probably 
another mistake. There can be no doubt at least about its 
being in reality a very fine variety of the Guatemala C. granu- 
losa, of which the small variety has been already figured in 
this work, and its introduction may with good reason be 
referred to one of Mr. Skinner's numerous importations. 
It is not surprising that it should have been referred to C. 
guttata; for the old specific character of the latter fits it very 
wel. But if the figure of that species in the Horticultural 
Transactions, vol. 2. t. 8. second Series, be consulted, the differ- 
ence between the two will be manifest. The large membranous 
wavy petals, great erect flowers, and long lip spread out at 
the point into a broad transverse plate are different from the 
same parts in the smaller resupinate flowers of Cattleya 
guttata. 
We suspect this plant to be more common in collections 
than is generally supposed, and that, in fact, it stands in 
many places as a representative of C. guttata. 
The beautiful specimen from which our drawing was 
made flowered at Syon in May 1844. 
November, 1845. 2A 
