118 ORCHIDS. 
C. exoniensis.—Often called Lelia exoniensts. This is 
a plant of English origin, and is a supposed cross between 
C. Mossiz and Lelia purpurata. In habit it much 
resembles the latter, whilst the flowers partake of 
the beauty of both. The sepals and petals are white, 
tinged with rosy lilac; whilst the labellum, which is very 
large, is of an intense, rich, shining purple, with a white, 
marginal border, the throat being suffused with rich golden 
yellow. It blossoms during late summer and autumn, and 
lasts many weeks in perfection. 
Fig. 30; Floral Magazine, t. 269. 
C. Hardyana (from C. Dowiana and C. gigas).—One of 
the grandest of Cattleyas. Flowers very large, rose-purple ; 
lip magenta-purple, veined with golden yellow. 
C. velutina (from C. bicolor and C. guttata).—Flowers 
tawny yellow, spotted with purple; lip white and yellow, 
streaked with purple. 
C. Whitei (supposed to be from C. labiata and C. Schil- 
leriana).—Flowers olive-green and rose; lip magenta-purple, 
with veins of deep purple. 
Garden Mybrids. 
The following is a list of the hybrid Cattleyas which 
have been raised in English gardens, chiefly by the Messrs. 
Veitch, of Chelsea. These plants are most of them repre- 
sented by only one or two specimens, and as they cannot 
be propagated except by division—a very slow process in 
the case of Cattleyas—they are out of the reach of most 
amateurs. When it is remembered that from the time of 
sowing the seeds to the time when the plants thus obtained 
develop flowers is seldom less than twelve years, and 
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