Nczv and Rare Plants 



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NO. 2. CATTLEYA DOWIANA. 



This magnificent Orchid was received throughout with gold threads. The expanded 



from Costa Rica, through G. U. Skinner, flowers are nearly 7 inches across, and the 



Esq. In its colouring and general effect it is fringed labellum not less than 4 inches long, 



entirely unlike anything yet seen in the genus, the latter having protruded about an inch 



Cattleya Dowiana. 



the sepals and petals being of a mellow straw- beyond the point of the unexpanded buds. 

 colour, while the lip is one uniform mass of Its beauty entitles it to rank as the queen of 

 the darkest purple velvet, streaked regularly all known Cattleyas. 



