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and petals are broad, white, faintly shaded with lavender, and 

 the lip is pure white, with a lilac lalotch in the centre, — Gar- 

 den hybrid. 



'Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 367. 



C. rommiana lutea, Veitch . — An elegant variety, in which 

 the flowers have the sepals and petals of a delicate blush, and 

 the lip white in front, sufiused with yellow, the disc being; 

 yellow, streaked with rose. — Garden hybrid. 



C. Dowiana, Bateman. — This superb species was imported 

 from Costa Rica in 1864, and flowered the following autumn.. 

 It has stout clavate sulcate monopbyllous stems, about a foot 

 high, oblong obtuse leaves, and very large flowers, of whick 

 the sepals and petals are of a bright nankin colour, suffused on. 

 the under sides with crimson, and the lip a rich bright dark 

 crimson-purple, beautifully streaked with gold. C Doiviana 

 is undoubtedly the most gorgeous of its family, bearing spikes 

 of five or six flowers each. We do not find this plant so free- 

 blooming as others, and only a very few people grow it welL 

 We have bloomed fine plants, but have found them best grown 

 in baskets as near the light as possible, at the warmest end of 

 the Cattleya house, and they must have a copious supply of 

 water during the growing season. This is a plant that no 

 collection should lack. — Costa Paca. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5618 ; Warner, Bel. Orch. PL, ii. t. 27 ; III. Eort., t. 

 525 ; Flore des Serves, tt, 1709—10; Bateman, 2nd Cent., t. 191 ; Jennings^ 

 Orch., t. 33 ; Belg. Eort., 1869, tt. 13—14. 



C. Bowiana aurea, Williams andMoore. — A very beautiful and 

 distinct form of C. Dowiana, difiering from the type in its 

 being devoid of crimson on the sepals and petals, and in the 

 lip having more yellow in it ; the sepals and petals are prim- 

 rose yellow, the lip rich velvety purple-crimson, distinctly 

 veined with golden yellow ; it flowers during the autumn, and 

 lasts for a couple of weeks in beauty. We have found this 

 variety more free-flowering than C. Doiviana. — Colombia. 



-piG— Orchid Album, ii. t. 84 ; Illust. Eort., 3 ser., t. 493. 

 Stn. — Cattleya aurea. 



C. EditMana, IVamer. — A splendid variety, in habit like 

 C. Mossia, and growing a foot high, with dark green foliage. 

 The flowers are very large, measuring from six to seven inches 

 in diameter ; the sepals and petals are light mauve, and the lip 

 also is mauve, striped with white, the discal part bufi". The 



