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of Liverpool, a great admirer of this class of plants, and who 

 has a fine collection of them. — Brazil. 



C. gigas, Linden et Andre. — This is undoubtedly one of 

 the finest Cattleyas known, its flowers being amongst the 

 largest and the most beautifully coloured, measuring seven to 

 eight inches broad, and nine to ten inches deep. It has short 

 fusiform stems, each bearing one oblong leathery leaf, and it 

 produces from four to five flowers on a peduncle. The flowers 

 are very handsome, the sepals and petals pale rose, and the 

 lip large and broad, of a rich deep purple or violet in front, 

 and having a large yellow eye-like blotch on each side of the 

 throat. The plant is not so free-flowering as many Cattleyas. 

 We have had the best success with it when it was grown in 

 a basket or pot suspended from the roof, as near the light 

 as possible, at the warm end of the Cattleya house. It flowers 

 in May, June, and July. — New Grenada. 



^IG.—Ill. Hort., 3 ser., 1. 178 ; Floral Mag. ,2 ser., 1. 144 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. 

 PI, in. t. 7 ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xiv. 268, fig. 50 ; Id., xvii, 343, fig. 53. 



C. gigas burfordiensis, Hort. — An exceedingly handsome 

 variety of this grand Orchid, exhibited by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P. The flowers measure fully eight 

 inches across ; the sepals and petals are of a beautiful rosy 

 lilac colour, and the lip is large and flat, three inches in 

 diameter, and of a deep amethyst colour, margined with dark 

 rosy purple, the throat orange-coloured, and the portion 

 which encircles the column of a rich rosy purple. — Colombia. 



C. gigas Sanderiana, i7o?t.— This is a fine form of C. 

 gigas, coming from a new locality. It resembles C. gigas in 

 growth, but frequently has red-tinted bulbs. It is, as far as 

 we have at present seen, a much freer-flowering form than the 

 type, and is equal in size and colour to the best forms of 

 C. gigas ; the lip is a deep magenta-purple. It flowers in 

 July and August. — Colombia. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., N.S., xx. 401, fig. 62. 



C. granulosa, Lindley. — A free-growing species, having 

 slender terete stems, a pair of oblong lanceolate leaves, a.nd 

 large olive-green flowers, with rich brown spots ; the lip 

 whitish, spotted with crimson, and having its surface broken 

 up into numerous granulations. It blooms in August and 

 September, and remains long in perfection. This is not so 



