Plate V.— Fig. 1. 



CATTLEYA BICOLOR 



Cnttleya liicolur, Botanical Register, plate 1919 in tlie letter-/ 

 Kpidemlrc iridec, Deseourtilzs drawings, /,l. 49. //. 105. 



press;. 



A very distinct Brazilian species of iliis charming genus. Il is for the present only known 

 from the drawings of M. Deecourtilz, who speak* of ii as follow* : 



1 This beautiful plant grows at » great deration on tbo trunks and branches of the largest 

 trees, where ii sometimes forms an enormous tuft. I have only found it in (he neighbourhood of 

 llom Jesus dc Batinnal. It,, flower endnrcs for a great while, opens in the month of April, nnd 

 exhale? the sweet smell of tlie garden pink. 



'■ RniaoMA reddish, cylindrical, articulaied, with short ringed segments, which put forth thick, 

 white, shining, cylindrical, or very simple root... Stems radical, often pendulous, from two to three 

 feet long, green, simple, covered completely with sheaths which urc long, dry. alternate, finely 

 striated of a dirty silver-grey colour; it bears at its summit two leaves, which are alternate, 

 lanceolate, obtuse, very thick, veinlcss, of a glaucous or blueish green. Flower-stalks proceeding 

 from a compressed, broad, greenish purple spalhe; the summit of the common peduncle pule 

 green. Flower very large, half-expanded. Sepals greenish brown, purple orreddish-brown, shining, 

 striated lengthwise : the upper oval-lanceolate, pointed, convex, the lower ascending and of'a similar 

 form. PETALS thinner, spathnlate, crisp, of the same reddish-brown colour as the sepal*. I.i i> narrow. 

 channelled at its base, which is pure white, forming a hue which extends as far as the middle of the 

 disk, when- it is dotted longitudinally with purple ; al the level where this white line terminate, the 

 di-k enlarges, and forms a rounded blade of a bright violet, turned downwards and regularly 

 er.mil. d ut the edge.. Column very thick, broad, convex above. Hat or a little concave beneath, 

 clear white, striated lengthwise with yellow at the base. Stigma heart-shaped, acute al the point. 

 POLLEK-MASSBft four, yellow, lenticular, compressed, inserted laterally on a curved gelatinous thread, 

 ami lodging in four cells of (ha anther, which is simply white and convex." 



