422 ORCHIDES. 



Caltleya PincUii Hort. Dot. Reg. XXX 1844 sub 5 : 

 Facie C. piimilae, sed sepalis acutis albidis, petalis ovatis roseis, 

 labello magis crispo, columna apice dentibus 2 crenalis aucta. — Brazil. — 

 Very near C. pumila, but the sepals are white, the petals almost exactly ovate, the 

 lip more crisp and of a brighter colour. — Requires further exaraination. 



Lindl. Past. Fl. G. I. p. 44. n. 66. = CatUeya spectabilis in Florist April (Vol. III. 

 p. 93.) flnely blown speciraen. 



Gardeners Chronicle 1854. 804 : The accompanying cut represents a very reraar- 

 kable monster of Caiileya pumila or marginata, for which we are indebted to Mr. 

 Rucker. The reader wiil at once observe that the lower Dower has wholiy lost the 

 lip, which is so characteristic to the genus , in place of which is a flat petal exactly 

 like the two others. The column exhibits no peculiarity. The case in questioQ 

 furnishes another example of the singular tendency which Orchids have to sport 

 from their ordinary condition sometimes assuming forms wholly aliene to their usual 

 nature, bul not less irregular ; in other cases attempting, as it were , to revert lo 

 ihat regular types of structure to which it is the.business of iheorists to reduce 

 them. A singuiar instance occurs in the Dendrobium normale of Griffllh, a plant 

 occasionally seen in cultivation, which is also a sport from one of the common yel- 

 low Indian Dcudrobia, but in that instance the column is also metamorphosed. The 

 loss of the lip was not the only instance of transformation in the Cattleya before 

 us, The oiher flower had reduced a strong white tooih in the middle of its lip near 

 the point, a circumstance which was owing to one of the three parallel ribs which 

 • naiurally belong to the lip becoming free. The signiflcation of this will be easily 

 understood by the philosophical botanist. 



Laelia jmmila Rchb. fll. in Van Houtt. fl. Serres IX. 102. 



12. BLETIA GLAUCA. Huc : Brassavola glanca Lindl. B. Reg. 1849, Misc. 67, : 

 Foliis coriaceis, oblongis obtusis planiusculis glaucis, spatha uni- 



flora, sepalis petalisque lineari lanceolatis obtusis berbaceis. Jabello 

 subsessili subrotundo acuto margine lobato, clinandrio dentato, dente 

 dorsali apice glanduloso. 



Mexico. Henchmann. Vera Cruz : sent by Hartweg. Its habit is so much that of a 

 Catileya , that till it flowered it was exspected to belong to that genus. It however 

 proves to be a Brassavola, with very large flowers. A figure is prepared for Batem. 

 0. of Mexico and Guatemala. 



B. Reg. XXVI. 1840. 44. : It is said, that this charming plant was originally foiind 

 near Xalapa in Mexico by Ilencbman, and that it was afterwards imported more abun- 

 danily by a Frenchman of the name of Deschamps, who brought over a large 

 quantity of Orchids and Cacti for sale, 



B, Mag. 4033. — Lindl. in PI. Harlweg. Fasc. 2, 1842. p, 93. : in loco ,.Chono" 

 dict. Hartweg. — Bateman Orch. Mex. Qual, t. 16. 



13. BLETIA DIGBYANA. Huc : Drassavola Digbyana Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846. t. 53. 



Foliis ovalibus planis carnosis glaucis, labello sessili cucullato cor- 

 dalo subtrilobo, margine in crinibus longis soluto, in disco cnllo maximo 

 auclo, dente postico subulalo incumbente. 



Honduras, Mrs, Donnell. V. Houtt. FI. d. Gcwch. III. t. 257. — B. Mag. 4474. 



2. Columna apice nunc trifida auriculis tum simpliciler acutis. 



* Lal)ellum flabcllalum.- 

 14. BLETIA FLADELLATA. iMclia xanthina Rvhh. fll. in Olto Ilamb. IJlzlg. 



