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C. pumila, Hooker. — A charming free-blooming species with 

 very short oblong stems, about six inches high, bearing a 

 solitary oblong-lanceolate leaf, and flowering in September, 

 remaining for three or four weeks in perfection. The 

 blossoms are proportionately large, deep purplish hlac with a 

 purplish crimson lip, often edged with white. It is similar to 

 C. viarginata in its habit of growth. This plant succeeds best 

 in the cool house. — Brazil. 



¥iG. —Bof. Mag., t. 3656 ; Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 5 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, ii. 

 t. 32 ; Gard. Chron., 1854, 804, with fig. (monstrous form). 

 Syn. — Lcelia pumila. 



C. quadri color, Lindley. — A very rare and pretty species, 

 which grows about ten inches high, and produces its blossoms 

 on the young growths in May and June. The stems are 

 narrow compressed monophyllous, the leaves strap-shaped, 

 and the charming flowers have the sepals and petals light 

 rose and the lip rosy crimson edged with white, the throat 

 yellow. There are two varieties of this plant in cultivation. 

 — New Grenada. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5504 ; Batem. 2nd Cent, t. 108 ; 111. Hort., t. 514. 



C. CiUinquecolor, Hort. — This pretty variety is the result of a 

 cross between C. Adandm and C. Forbesii. The sepals and 

 petals are light olive green spotted with brown and dark 

 chocolate ; the lip is carmine-rose veined with deeper rose, 

 and having an elongated bar of yellow on the disk. — Garden 

 hybrid. 

 'Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 511. 



C. Eollissoni. — See Cattleya Wakscewiczii delicata. 



C. Scllilleriaiia, Rchb. f. — A charming species, much like 

 C. AclandicB in growth ; the foliage is, however, darker and 

 rounder. It blooms during the summer months from the 

 young growths, the flowers being large, remaining in per- 

 fection three or four weeks, if kept dry. They are deep rosy 

 mahogany colour, in some forms spotted, the lip having 

 darker stripes and shadings and being edged with pink. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig. — Bot. Mag., t. 5150 (var. concolor) ; Jennings, Orch., t. 25 ; Flore des 

 /Serres, t. 2286 ; Xenia Orch.,M.t. Ill (white-lipped); Florist, x.u.. I'd^, t. 

 3 53. (?) 



C. ScMUeriana Eegnelli, Williams. — This is sometimes 

 considered distinct from the preceding, but although well 



