1919 



* CATTLEYA intermedia; mr. pallida. 

 Pale-flowered intermediate Cattleya. 



GYNANDRIA MONA^BRlA. 



Nat. ord. Orchidace-i:, § Epidendre/E. 

 CATTLEYA.— Suprd, vol. U.fol. 953. 



C. intermedia ; folils oblongis emarginatis cauli asquallbus, sepalis pctalisque 

 lineari-oblongls subajqualibus subundulatis obtusiusculis, labello trilobo 

 lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato : laciniis lateralibus ovatis ob- 

 tusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato denticulate. 



a. Jioribus roseis. 



C. intermedia. Graham in Bot. Mag. t. 2851 . Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 1 17. 



ft. Jioribus suhalbis rubescentibus, disco labelli sanguineo. 



This very pretty Cattleya was imported from the Brazils 

 some years since by the Horticultural Society, in whose 

 Garden the drawing was made so long since as June 1834. 

 The mixture of white and crimson in its flowers gives it a 

 beautiful appearance, and renders it much more interesting 

 than the original variety, which is too like C. Loddigesii. 



The only wild specimens I am acquainted with are in 

 Sir Wm. Hooker's Herbarium, collected near Buenos Ay res 

 by Mr. Tweedie, and sent home with the following note : — 

 " This is by far the handsomest of the tribe in this country, 

 and grows equally well on the sea-beaten rock, and the 

 moss-covered tree in the heart of the forest. It is to be 

 found in bloom at all seasons. There are many varieties of 

 it ; their colour pink and crimson." I suspect, however, 

 that Mr. Tweedie confounds different things, and that 

 several species of Cattleya are to be found in the neighbour- 

 hood of Buenos Ayres. One at least I am able to describe 



* See folio 1172. 



