30 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



Monica Measures. — Petals rose, with a broad streak of 

 purple down the centre from base to point. Sepals also rose, 

 tipped with purple. Lip of darkest crimson, fringed. 



Lily Measures. — A very large flower, white of sepal and 

 petal. On the lip, somewhat pale, as if to show it off, is a 

 splash of purple-crimson, sharply defined. 



R. H. Measures. — Sepals and petals tinted with rose. 

 Enormous lip, very dark crimson, fringed. 



William Lloyd. — For this I can only repeat the last de- 

 scription, yet the eye perceives a difference not inconsiderable. 



Mrs. R. H. Measures. — All white saving the yellow throat 

 and two small touches of purple in the front. 



Duke of Marlborough. — This variety moved the great 

 Reichenbach, as he said, to 'religious admiration.' No 

 doubt it is the grandest of all Mendeliis — which is much 

 to say ; very large, perfectly graceful in form, exquisitely 

 frilled. The colour of sepal and petal pink, the throat 

 yellow, the spreading disc magenta-crimson. 



The left side of the house is filled with large plants — some 

 two hundred — of Cattleya Schroderae, which the learned 

 recognise as a variety of Cattleya Trianae. It has the great 

 advantage, however, of flowering in April, and thus, when 

 discovered in 1884 by Arnold, collecting for Messrs. Sander, 

 it filled a gap in the succession of Cattleyas. Henceforward 

 the careful amateur might have one variety at least in bloom 

 the year round. Named of course after Baroness Schroder. 

 All Cattleyas are scented more or less at certain times of the 

 day, but none so strongly as this, nor so persistently.^ 



It does not vary so much as most of its kin, but it shows 

 perhaps a greater tendency to albinism than any — as seems 

 natural when its colours are so much paler. Among these 

 grand plants we have three white, notably — 



Miss Mary Measures, of which the picture is given. 

 Overhead hang smaller plants of Cattleya Mossiae, Trianae, 



