Tas. 7188. 
CATTLEYA Lawrencrana. 
Native of British Guiana, 
Nat. Ord. OrcHipEx.—Tribe EpipEenpREx. 
Genus Cattieya, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 53), 
CattteryA Lawrenceana; rhizomate valido, pseudobulbis validis clavatis v. 
elongato-fusiformibus 8-10-sulcatis monophyllis, folio 6-8 pollicari lineari- 
oblongo obtuso rigido basi vaginis membranaceis vestito, scapo brevi 
valido vaginato plurifloro, floribus amplis 4-6 poll. latis seepius laste roseis, 
limbo labelli sanguineo-purpureo, sepalis anguste lineari-oblongis obtusis 
recurvis marginibus undulatis, petalis magnis late oblongis marginibus 
undulatis lobulatis cristatisve, labelli tubo elongato subcurvo anguste 
cylindraceo, limbo explanato orbiculari bifido marginibus revolutis den- 
* ticulatis, columna breviuscula. 
C. Lawrenceana, Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1885, vol. i. p. 338 and 374, figs. 
68, 69; Reichenbachia, vol. i. t. 12; Lindenia, vol. i. t.44; Warner Orchid. 
Alb. t. 342; Im Thurn in Trans. Linn. Soc. Ser. 2, vol. i. p. 249; Ridley 
Ll. c. p. 282; Veitch Man. Orchid. pars ii. p. 40. 
C. pumila, Schomb. Reise in Brit. Guian. vol. iii. p. 1068 (non Hook, Bot. Mag. 
t. 3656). 
A reference to the plate of Cattleya Skinnert (t. 4270) 
in this Magazine shows a remarkably close resemblance 
between that plant and this, so close, indeed, that it 
would not be easy to distinguish them by words for 
botanical purposes, except that the pseudobulbs of Law- 
renceana are monophyllous. C. Skinneri is a native of 
Guatemala, and assuming the above-cited figure to repre- 
sent the plant in a normal state, its flowers differ from 
those of Lawrenceana in being smaller with much shorter 
and broader sepals and petals, and a much shorter tube 
of the lip, the limb of which is less crenulate, and by the 
throat of the latter being bright yellow. The colour of 
the whole flower of C. Skinneri is more dingy, and though 
called in the description “ brilliant rosy” in one place, in 
another it is described (more in accordance with the 
plate) as “of the most lovely lilac-purple tint imagin- 
able.” On the other hand, C. Lawrenceana is described by 
Warner as having rosy-purple flowers, with a dark purple 
band in front of the white throat of the lip; but I do 
not find the latter character in any published drawing of 
SEPTEMBER Ist, 1890. 
