[Plate 24.] 
YAKIETIES OF THE RUBY-LIPPED CATTLEYA. 
(CATTLEYA LABI AT A.) 
Stove Epiphytes, natives of the Caraccas, belonging to the Order of Orchids 
gpztifit Character 
THE RUBY-LIPPED CATTLEYA.— Stems between 
club-shaped and spindle-shaped, furrowed. Leaves soli- 
tary, oblong. Spathe as long as the peduncle. Sepals 
linear-lanceolate, acute, coloured. Petals membranous, 
oblong-lanceolate, wavy, much broader. Lip obovate, 
crisp and wavy, emarginate, smooth on the disk. 
fusiformibus 
CATTLEYA LABI ATA, 
sulcatis, foliis solitariis oblongis, spatba pedunculi longi- 
tudine, sepalis lineari-lanceolatis acutis coloratis, petalis 
membranaceis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis multo latiori- 
bus, labello obovato crispo-undulatoemarginato disco laevi. 
C. labiata Lindley Collectanea JBotanica t. 33 ; alias C. Mossise Hooker in Bot. Mag. t. 3669. 
These magnificent varieties of the Ruby-lipped Cattleya are quite new and at present among the 
rarities of Horticulture. For the white one we are indebted to the noble collection at Syon ; for 
the blotched sort to J. J. Blandy, Esq., of Reading. 
The Ruby-lipped Cattleya is that on which the genus was founded. It was first sent to Europe 
by Mr. Swainson, who discovered it in Brazil and used its steins as a kind of * dunnage * to set fast 
certain chip boxes of lichens &c, which he transmitted to Sir William (then Mr.) Hooker. Where he 
gathered it we are not informed, but we learn something precise on the subject from Mr. Gardner. 
This lamented Botanist found it on the edge of a precipice on the eastern side of the Pedro Bonita 
Mountain, about fifteen miles from Rio Janeiro, where it grew along with Vellozias, the Mackay 
Zygopetalum and Dipladenes (Jaum. of Hart. Soc, vol. i. p. 196) ; and also on the Gavea, or Topsail 
Mountain, so called from its square shape, and well known to English sailors by the name of Lord 
Hood's nose. Travels in Brazil, p. 28. This plant has a pale lilac tint with a very broad rich stain 
of ruby red over-spreading all the front half of the lip except the very edge- 
