42 ORCHIDS FOR EVERYONE 



colour is pale rosy-lilac, with yellow marks on the lip. A useful 

 and long-lasting Orchid. 



C. Mendelii belongs to the group of which C. labiata is the 

 type. It has large and beautiful flowers in early Summer, and these 

 are blush or light rosy-lilac, with broad magenta-purple lip. The 

 species is variable in the matter of colour, and it also seems to be 

 growing scarcer as a wild plant in Colombia. April and May is 

 the usual flowering season. 



C. Mossi-iE is another immensely popular labiate Cattleya. 

 It is found chiefly in Venezuela and shows a considerable range of 

 colour. The large and beautiful flowers have light rose or lilac 

 sepals and petals and a crimson and purple lip, handsomely marked 

 with deep yellow. Some of the varieties are of deeper colour than 

 the rest, and there is a considerable group of white varieties, 

 though in all these there is some colouring in the lip. C. M. 

 Arnoldiana, C. M. Reineckiana, and C. M. Wagenerii (or 

 alba) are fine forms of this latter group, but even these show some 

 variation among themselves, and the finest varieties are quite costly. 

 The flowering season is May, June, and July. 



C. ScHRODERJE is a lovely Cattleya of the labiate group. 

 It grows very like C. Triatia and has large and deliciously sweet- 

 scented flowers. The broad sepals and petals are pale soft rose 

 or lilac, and the shapely lip is of deeper hue with an orange- 

 coloured throat. It is a free flowering, beautiful, and easily grown 

 species, and its blooms appear in the Spring. 



C. TrianjE, another member of the labiate group, is extremely 

 variable in its colouring, but it is a fine species with large, handsome 

 flowers, produced from January to April or May, and it has a 

 robust constitution. The sepals and petals are usually deep 

 blush or rosy-lilac and the lip crimson-purple, with an orange- 

 purple throat. There is a white form [alba] and a whole host of 



