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position in the warm end of the Cattleya-house, and if care- 
fully managed it should blossom in September and October. 
Introduced from Venezuela in 1854, and again in quantity, 
by Messrs. Low & Co., in 1883. 
Plate; Williams’ Orchid Album, vi., t. 261. 
Var. alba has large, white flowers, the lip blotched with 
yellow. 
Vars. brilliantissima and Regina are very deep-coloured 
forms. 
Var. Schrederi has white flowers, the lip blotched yellow 
and lined with purple. 
C. maxima—tThis is a useful species, producing several 
of its fine flowers upon one spike in November. The 
blossoms are 5in. across, rose-coloured throughout, of a 
pale hue when they first expand, gradually becoming 
darker; the lip, which is very large, is almost white, 
beautifully ornamented with dark purplish-crimson veins, 
and streaked in the centre with orange-colour. The 
pseudo-bulbs are slender, about 1ft. long, one-leaved, the 
leaves from 6in. to roin. long, and 2in. broad. It is a 
native of Columbia and Guayaquil, whence it was intro- 
duced in 1844. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 4902. 
Var. alba—Flowers white, with a yellow blotch and 
purple markings on the lip. 
Var. aphlebia.—Lip without purple markings. 
A form with short stems and deep-coloured flowers is 
known as Backhouse’s variety. 
C. Mendelii—A magnificent Cattleya of the labiata group. 
The pseudo-bulbs are short, stout, and furrowed, and the 
leaf is oblong and leathery. The flowers are very large; 
the sepals and petals are white, or pale satiny pink, 
becoming, in most varieties, almost pure white soon after 
