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marked, it is evidently very closely allied to that plant. The 

 stems are usually about four or five inches high, the leaves 

 in pairs, or sometimes in threes, thick, fleshy, and dark green. 

 The flowers are borne upon upright spikes, from three to five 

 in a cluster, measuring nearly four inches in diameter ; sepals 

 and petals somewhat oblong, spathulate, green sufi'used with 

 olive gi-een and spotted with brownish purple ; the front lobe 

 of the lip large, rich amethyst shaded with purple and bordered 

 with white, the base yellow, streaked with purple. It should 

 be placed upon a block with a little sphagnum moss, and 

 suspended from the roof at the warmest end of the Cattleya 

 house, shaded from the direct rays of the sun, and supplied 

 with water liberally during the growing season ; during the 

 winter less heat will suffice, but it must by no means be 

 allowed to get dry. It is a very desirable plant, as it blooms 

 twice in the year, first in the month of July, and again about 

 the end of September or the beginning of October. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., ii. t. 22. 

 Syn. — C. RegnelUi. 



C. Scliofieldiana, Bchb. f. — This is a most handsome and 

 distinct addition to this popular genus, and was first flowered 

 by G.W. Law-Schofield, Esq., of Rawtenstall, near Manchester, 

 in honour of whom it was named by Professor Reichenbach. It 

 is an evergi'een species, having stems and leaves similar to 

 those of C. guttata Leopoldii, but not quite so strong as those 

 of that plant. The sepals and petals are pale tawny yellow, 

 having a flush of purple and a tinge of green, the whole of the 

 surface densely spotted with crimson-purple ; the lip is two 

 and a half inches long, covered with lamellae and papulas of 

 a bright magenta-purple, the lateral lobes white tinged with 

 rose ; it flowers in August. — Brazil. 



YlG.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 93. 



C. Sclirdcleriana, Bchb. f. — A very distinct and curious 

 Cattleya. The stems are nearly four inches higb, having 

 two well-marked joints, two leaved, the leaves oblong-ligulate. 

 The flowers are about the size of a good La^Ua majniis, 

 of a mauve-purple colour, somewhat in the way of C. clolosa, 

 but having thinner bulbs of equal thickness throughout, and 

 not spindle-shaped as in that species ; it flowers during the 

 summer months. — ? Brazil. 



C. Sedeniana, Veitch. — A beautiful Veitchian hybrid, the 

 parents being C. crisjxi and C. granulosa ; it is tall in habit ; 



