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lovely — all purest white, except the lip of brilliant purple 

 with yellow throat. Like many other orchids from the high 

 lands of Brazil, this will grow equally well in the cool house. 

 It is, in truth, a variety of L. pumila ; its normal colour rosy 

 purple. 



Cattleya Gaskelliana 



The fourth compartment is given up to Cattleya Gaskel- 

 liana, a species from Venezuela, not showy, as a rule — though 

 striking exceptions can be found, as here — but always useful. 

 Like Cattleya Schroderae it filled a gap when discovered in 

 1883, for there was no species at the time which flowered in 

 July. Its normal colour is mauve ; the lip has a big yellow 

 blotch and a mottling of purple in the front. 



About four hundred plants are accommodated in this 

 house, among them four albinos — one with eight pseudo- 

 bulbs and two flowering growths. But the finest flower is 



Miss Clara Measures — snowy white, of course, but with 

 a lip like Cattleya Mossiae. Among others notable are : — 



Dellensis. — A noble variety. Mauve-pink — the petals 

 immensely broad. The great spreading lip has a gamboge 

 throat fading to chrome -yellow, intersected with lines of 

 bright crimson. The crimson of the front is defined as 

 sharply as if by the stroke of a paint-brush. 



Godseffiana. — Pale rosy mauve. Petals immense. Lip a 

 curious dusky crimson, with a narrow dusky-yellowish out- 

 line. 



Duke of Marlborough. — Gigantic. Sepals and petals 

 bright rose ; the broad lip has the same dusky outHne. 



Measuresiana. — Very pale. The crimson of the lip, 

 which is long but comparatively narrow, runs far up the 

 throat, but leaving two clear yellow ' eyes ' as distinct as in 

 Cattleya gigas. 



