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fully waved and toothed on the margin, white with a yellow 

 line on the disk, and two small pale purple blotches, light 

 purple on the margin, — Garden hybrid. 



C. Mardellii, Seden^. — This fine hybrid has stems about 

 four and a half inches long, terminated by two leaves. The 

 sepals and petals are bright magenta, the lip three-lobed, 

 opening out on both sides of the column, the side lobes pale 

 magenta, almost white towards the middle ; down the centre of 

 the throat is a broad bright yellow stripe, while the front of 

 the lip is rich bright magenta-purple. A very handsome 

 high-coloured plant, flowering in June. Raised at Messrs, 

 Veitch & Sons'. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 437. 



C. marginata, Pinel. — A handsome dwarf-growing species, 

 about six inches high, the stems cylindraceo-fusiform and 

 one-leaved. The flowers are large, usually solitary, but 

 sometimes two on a spike ; sepals and petals rosy crimson ; 

 lip deep rose, margined with white. It produces its blossoms 

 in September and October, and lasts three weeks in perfection. 

 It is a very desirable plant, and ought to be in every collection, 

 however small, as it requires but very little room. It grows 

 best suspended from the roof of the cool-house, on a block of 

 wood, with a Httle sphagnum moss, and it requires a good 

 supply of water at the root in the growing season. There 

 are many varieties of this species, and some of them are very 

 beautiful in colour. — Brazil. 



¥iQ.—Paxton, Mag. Bot., x. 265, with tab. ; III. Hort., t. 193- Florist 

 1850, 91, t. 34. 



Syn. — C.pumila major ; C. spectabilis. 



C. Marstersoniae, Seden. — A hybrid raised at Messrs. Veitch & 

 Sons', between C. labiata and an unnamed seedling Cattleya. 

 The stems are about eight inches long, two-leaved, somewhat 

 resembling C. superba. The flowers are intermediate in aspect 

 between C. Loddigesii and C. labiata, amethyst-coloured, the 

 lateral lobes of the Up yellowish white with a delicate amethyst 

 border, and the middle lobe an intense rich purple. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



C. maxima, Lindley. — A magnificent species, growing from 

 a foot to eighteen inches high, distinct in character, with fur- 

 rowed club-shaped stems, bearing two oblong submarginate 

 leaves, and producing from five to ten flowers on a spike in 

 November and December, continuing in perfection for three 

 weeks. The sepals and petals are bright rose, the hp richly 



