104 ORCHIDS. 
paler in colour, blotched in front with deep violet-purple. 
It blooms during May, June, and July. It is an old in- 
habitant of our houses, having been introduced from the 
neighbourhood of Rio in 1824. Syns. C. amadbilis, C. 
amethystina. 
Fig. 26; Botanical Magazine, t. 2851. 
Fig. 26. Flower of Cattleya intermedia 
(2 nat. size). 
C. labiata.— This name is used by the Messrs. Veitch 
for a large group of distinct kinds which are reduced by 
them to varieties of C. labiata. To us, however, it appears 
much the simpler plan to treat such kinds as C. Mossia, 
C. Triane, C. Dowiana, &c., as species, therein following 
