Tas. 5150. 
CATTLEYA ScuHi.Lueriana; var. concolor. 
Schillerian Cattleya ; whole-coloured var. 
Nat. Ord. OrncH1pEx —GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. | 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4700.) 
CatrLeya Schilleriana ; pseudobulbis elongatis, foliis binis ellipticis carnosis, 
crassis atro-purpureo maculatis, flore solitario vivide purpureo-rubro petalis 
undulatis sepalisque immaculatis, labelli lobo terminali maximo reniformi 
patente margine ciliato albo. 
Cattieya Schilleriana. Reichenb. in Berl. Allg. Gartenzeit. Oct. 17, 1847. 
Var. 8. labello toto purpureo (lobi terminalis margine excepto). 
This really splendid Cad#leya was communicated to us in Sep- 
tember, 1859, by Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of the York Nur- 
series, having been imported direct from Brazil. Dr. Lindley 
pronounces it to be the Cattleya Schilleriana, Reichenbach, of 
which the author says, “pseudobulbo C. Aclandia, flore C. gut- 
tate.” To us it seems very distinct from both, and much hand- 
somer than either. In the original species the lip is white, with 
purple veins. : a 
Duscr. Pseudobulé elongated, clavate, branched. Flowering- 
branch with two unequally sized, thick, fleshy, elliptical eaves, 
dark-green above, a little paler beneath, sprinkled with black- 
purple spots on both sides, the larger spots on the upper side. 
From a sheathing, compressed, membranaceous bract, between 
the two leaves, consequently terminal, arises a peduncle, bearing 
a solitary, large, rich red-purple flower. Sepals spreading, ob- 
long-lanceolate, nearly straight ; pe/a/s also spreading, nearly of 
the same shape, waved. Lzp-large, deflexed, three-lobed, lateral 
lobes involute, enclosing the column, middle lobe very large, 
spreading, reniform, marked with radiating veins, the margin 
fimbriato-ciliate and white. Column rather short, nearly white, — 
dashed with purple. 
Fig. 1. Column and anther. 2. Pollen-masses :—magnified. 
NOVEMBER lst, 1859. 
