17-t okchid-grower's manual. 



sepals and petals are blush white, the lip rich magenta 

 crimson ; it flowers in December. — Garden hybrid. 



C. ametliystoglossa, Linden et Rchb. f. — A beautiful and 

 distinct species, growing from two to three feet high, in the 

 way of C. Leopoldii, with terete stems, slightly thickened 

 upwards, and two oblong-lanceolate leaves on the top of the 

 stems, from between which are produced spikes with seven to ten 

 flowers,, each measuring more than five inches across ; indeed 

 we have had them when very strong with as many as twenty- 

 seven flowers. The sepals and petals are sufiused with light 

 rose, and spotted with rich magenta purple, while the lip is 

 deep magenta purple. It blooms in March, April, and May, 

 and will last five weeks in perfection. There have been a 

 good many plants of this beautiful species imported during 

 the last few years, and many varieties have bloomed ; indeed it 

 is seldom that two plants flower exactly alike. See note 

 under C. guttata Prinzii. — Brazil. 



¥10.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 2 ; Bot. Mag.,t. 5683; 111. Hort., t.538; 

 Rev. Hort., 1869, 212, with tab. 



C. amethystoglossa SUlplmrea, Hort. — A very pretty variety 

 of this fine Orchid, resembling in every respect the plant 

 figured in Mr, Warner's book above quoted as C. amethysto- 

 glossa, except that the ground colour of the flower is of a pure 

 lemon colour, the spotting being as in the type ; the lip is 

 broad, and of a rich cream colour. — Brazil. 

 Fig.— Gard. Chron., 1866, 315, with fig. (?) 



C. aurea. — See Cattleya Dowiana aurea. 



C. Mcolor, Lindley. — A beautiful and free-flowering Orchid 

 of vigorous growth, with slender terete striated stems eighteen 

 inches to two feet high, diphyllous, the leaves oblong- 

 lanceolate, and the flowers on a terminal peduncle. The sepals 

 and petals are pale green, with a lurid coppery brown tinge, 

 the oblong-cuneate lip rich rose purple, remarkable from the 

 absence of side lobes, the exposed column being pink. It blooms 

 in September, producing as many as eight or ten flowers on a 

 spike, and remaining a long time in perfection. There were 

 two beautiful varieties of this plant in the collection of the 

 late T. Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank. — Brazil. 



Fm.—Bot. Mag., t. 4909; Diet, of Gard., 281, fig. 384; Sertum Orch., 

 t. 5 ; Lem. Jard. Fl, t. 379. 



