Tas. 5039. 
CATTLEYA Actanp1i«. 
Lady Acland’s Cattleya. 
Nat. Ord. OrcHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MoONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4700.) 
CATTLEYA Aclandia ; foliis ellipticis, floribus binis, sepalis petalisque herbaceis 
obovato-lanceolatis sequalibus undulatis purpureo-maculatis, labelli_plani 
calvi hypochilio dilatato paulo subrepando epichilio orbiculari reniformi 
emarginato. Lind. 
Cattieya Aclandiw. Lindl. Bot. Reg. v. 26. 4.48. Paxt. Mag. of Bot. v. 9. t. 1. 
Fl. des Serres, v. 7. t. 674. 
One of the handsomest of a very handsome genus, distinguished 
by Dr. Lindley with the name of the late lamented Lady Acland, 
of Killerton, Devon, by whom the plant was first introduced from 
Brazil, and from a drawing by her Ladyship the figure im the 
‘Botanical Register’ was engraved. We have since received living 
plants from Bahia through our obliging friend J. Wetherall, 
now her B. M. Consul at Paraiba, Brazil. The flowers are 
charmingly varied in colour, and the structure of the labellum 
departs from the usual form, constituting (with Cattleya bicolor) 
a distinct section of the genus, distinguished by the base of the 
lip being too narrow and too spreading to cover the column. 
With us, April has been its flowering season in @ warm stove. 
Duscr. Pseudobulbs cauliform, terete, jointed, four to five. «= 
inches long, striated, branched at the base, and sheathed with — 
membranaceous spathes at the joints. Leaves two, terminal, — 
elliptical, obtuse, thick and fleshy. From the centre of this pair 
of leaves the peduncle appears, bearing two large very handsome 
flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, spreading, two to two and a : 
quarter inches long, obovato-lanceolate, firm, fleshy, yellow-green, 
strongly spotted and blotched with dark purple on the upper or 
anterior side, much less distinctly so at the back. Lip large, 
porrected, much larger than the petals or sepals, panduriform ; 
MARCH Ist, 1858. 
