CATTLEYA. 



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C. Boissieri, Hort. — In this handsome species the leaves 

 are of a short broad oblong form, and the flowers have soft 

 rosy-lilac sepals and petals, and a broad lip with a beautiful 

 curving yellow blotch extending half-way down and nearly 

 across it. — Neic Grenada. 



C. Bluntii, Low. — This is truly a most chaste and beautiful 

 Cattleya. It was first flowered by John Day, Esq., Tottenham, 

 and was named after the collector, Mr. H. Blunt. In its stems 

 and leaves, as well as in the habit of growth, it resembles 

 C. Mendelii, and the flowers are also similar in form to those 

 of that species. The sepals and petals are pure white, and 

 the lip white, with a yellow stain in the throat ; it flowers 

 during the summer months. — Colombia. 



C. Brabantige, Veitch. — This is one of the Messrs. Veitch 

 and Sons' hybrids, the result of a cross between C. Acland.i<z 

 and C. Loddigesii, and requires the same treatment as its 

 parents, which are both natives of the warmer parts of Brazil. 

 It is a sturdy dwarf-growing variety, with terete stems, a pair 

 of ligulate-oblong leaves, and comparatively large flowers, in 

 which the rose-coloured sepals and petals are thickly blotched 

 with blackish purple, and the lip has its lateral lobes white, 

 curved over the broad rose-coloured column, and its front 

 lobe retusely reniform, of a magenta purple. It was first 

 exhibited at the Brussels International Show in 1864. — 

 Garden hybrid. 

 'Fig.— Floral Mag., t. SCO. 



C. Brymeriana, Rchb. f. — This is a fine novelty, introduced 

 by Messrs. Low & Co., and named in honour of W. E. Brymer, 

 Esq., M.P,, Ilsington House, Dorchester. It is similar in 

 growth to a short-bulbed Lalia elegans, the flowers being 

 medium sized ; the sepals and petals are of a pale rosy purple, 

 and the lip — which has a narrow closely-folded tubular base 

 nearly two inches long, yellowish below, and pale lilac with 

 the front part veiny magenta-purple above, and a clear yellow 

 throat cut off abruptly in front — has the anterior lobe trans- 

 versely roundish oblong, emarginate, and of a rich magenta- 

 purple ; this anterior lobe is remarkable for its squareness. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iv., t. 184. 



C Brysiana. — See L^lia Brysiana. 



