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CATTLEYA bulbosa. 
Bulbous Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE. (Oncnips, Vegetable Kingdom, p. 173.) 
CATTLEY A.— Lindl. 
Section 2. Lip without the lateral lobes, and flat below the column. 
C. bulbosa; caulibus ovalibus brevibus pseudobulbos referentibus foliis soli- 
tariis ovalibus coriaceis brevioribus, pedunculis unifloris, petalis ovalibus 
undulatis membranaceis sepalis duplo latioribus, labelli plani calvi lobis 
lateralibus brevibus rotundatis intermedio cuneato bilobo rotundato. 
Brazil is supposed to be the parent of this exquisite little 
species, but it is not certain. We are indebted for it to 
Mr. Rucker, with whom it flowered in May last. It belongs 
to the same section as ©. Aclandie, from which it differs in 
its having much larger lateral lobes to the lip, a very diffe- 
rently formed middle lobe, and flowers of quite another 
colour. It may also be compared with C. pumila, which 
should be placed in the same section. With the latter, 
indeed, it accords in its stems resembling pseudo-bulbs, and 
its colour, but the flowers are much larger, and the lip flat 
not rolled up and crisp. 
The accompanying figure conveys a good idea of this 
lovely plant, whose flat shovel-shaped lip, of an intensely deep 
crimson, gradually melts away till it loses itself in the im- 
perfect lateral lobes, which are pink, bordered with crimson. 
This very pretty epiphyte should be either fastened to a 
block of wood, with a little sphagnum, or placed well elevated 
upon a pot, filled one-third with broken pots, and the re- 
mainder with the rough fibre out of peat soil and half 
decayed leaves, in nearly equal portions, and afterwards 
placed in the lightest, coolest and dryest part of the Or- 
chideous house. 
August, 1847. a 
