TAB. Gari, 
CATTLEYA Rex. 
Peru. 
be! 
ORCHIDACEAE. Tribe EpIDENDREAE. 
Catrueya, Lindl.; Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 531. 
Cattleya Rex, O'Brien in Gard. Chron. 1890, vol. viii. p. 684; 1891, vol. ix. 
pp. 272, 273, fig. 61; Lindenia, t. 265; Rev. Hort. 1891, p. 228, cum ic.; 
Heichenbachia, ser. 2, vol. ii. p. 55, t. 72; Cogn. Dict. Ic. Orch., Cat. t. 22; 
affinis C. ma:imae, Liudl., sed sepalis petalisque eburneis et labello colore 
valide differt. 
Herba epiphytica, Psewdobulbi fusiformi-clavati, subeompressi, 15-30 em. longi, 
monophylli. Folia oblonga, subobtusa, coriacea, 20-25 cm. longa, 5-6 em. 
lata. Spatha lineari-oblonga, obtusa, 8-12 cm. longa. Racemi 12-20 em. 
longi, 3-6-Hori; bracteae triangulari-ovatae, acutae, 6-8 mm. longae. 
Pedicelli 6-7 cm. longi. Flores magni, speciosi. Sepala patentia, oblongo- 
lanceolata, subacuta, 7-8 cm. longa, apice recurva, eburnea. Petalu sub- 
patentia, elliptica vel rhomboideo-elliptica, obtusa, undulata, 7-8 em. 
Jonga, eburnea, sepa'a triplo latiora. Label/um integrum, late oblongum, 
7-8 cm. longum; lobi laterales columnam involventes, flavi; lobus inter- 
medius expanxus, orbicularis, valde crispo-undulatus, roseus, basi sanguineo- 
venosus, margine pallido; discus flavus purpureo-striatus. Colwmna 
clavata, arcuata, 8-3°5 em. longa. Pollinia 4, compressa, appendicibus 
linearibus reflexis.—R. A. Roure. 
This handsome Cattleya was originally discovered by 
Mr. Bungeroth on the western slopes of the Peruvian Andes, 
and was introduced to cultivation by Mr. L. Linden, 
L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels, in which estab- 
lishment it flowered for the first time in 1890; in the Kew 
collection it flowered for the first time in 1893. The plants 
of this earliest importation did not as a rule survive many 
years, and the species had become very rare in cultivation 
when Messrs. Sander & Sons, St. Albans, a year ago 
succeeded in obtaining a fresh consignment of plants from 
Mayobambo, in the Upper Amazon region. One of these 
plants, purchased for the Kew collection, flowered in a 
tropical house in July, 1910, and afforded the material from 
which our plate has been prepared. The species may be 
regarded as most nearly allied to C. maxima, Lindl, ; it 
JuNE, 1911. 
