Tas. 7543. 
CATTLEYA ELONGATA. 
Native of Brazil. 
Nat. Ord. Orcuiprx.—Tribe VANDER. 
Genus Cartreya, Lindl. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 531.) 
CattLEya elongata; caulibus 1-2-pedalibus e basi decumbente ascendentibus 
strictisve simplicibus cylindraceis sulcatis, internodiis 1-2-pollicaribus 
non incrassatis, foliis apices versus caulorum paucis oblongis obtusis 
crasse coriaceis rigidis dorso carinatis saturate viridibus, racemo longe 
pedunculato erecto 6-10-flore, rachi valida viridi, vagina ad basin 
ee lineari-oblonga carinata, bracteis parvis, pedicellis cum ovario 
-pollicaribus viridibus, floribus erectis 4-poll. expans., sepalis petalisque 
obtusis undulatis rufo-aurantiacis, sepalo dorsali lineari, lateralibus 
lineari-oblongis, petalis sepalo dorsali consimilibus sed crispato-undulatis, 
labelli rosei lobis lateralibus dimidiato-ovatis, intermedio flabelliforme 
2-lobo, columna clavata. _ 
C. elongata, Rodrig. Gen. & Sp. Orchid. Nov. vol. i. (1877) p. 72. Rolfe in 
Orchid. Rev. vol. vii. p. 206. : 
C. Alexandre, L. Linden § Rolfe in Gard. Chron. 1892, vol. i. p. 522; in 
Lindenia, vol. viii. t. 357, 358. 
A remarkable and very beautiful species, distinguished 
for its very long peduncle, and the peculiar colour of 
the sepals and petals. Its nearest ally, as pointed out by 
Mr. Rolfe, is with C. Leopoldi. In the specimen described 
in the Gardener’s Chronicle, there were ten racemes, with 
peduncles fifteen to eighteen inches long, each bearing six 
to ten flowers. It was flowered by Messrs. Linden & Co., 
of Brussels, in 1892. The specimen here figured was 
_ purchased for the Royal Gardens, Kew, at an auction sale 
in 1893. It flowered in the Orchid House in October, 
1893, and proves to be a finer variety than has hitherto 
en known. : 
_ Deser.—Stems erect, or ascending from a decumbent 
rooting base, one to two feet high, as thick as the little 
finger, terete, sulcate, pale; internodes one to two inches 
Jong, naked, not swollen; nodes marked by a transverse 
brown line. Leaves few at the top of the stem, sessile, 
about six inches long by one and a half broad, oblong, 
obtuse, thickly and rigidly coriaceous, dorsally keeled, 
dark green above. Peduncles many, up to eighteen inches 
Juty 1st, 1897. 
