200 okohid-grower's makual. 



the flowers are large and handsome ; the sepals and petals are 

 light rose, shaded with green, and the lip has a white fim- 

 briated margin, and a purple centre with darker veins. A 

 desirable plant. — Garden hybrid. 



C. Skinneri, Bateman. — A beautiful and free-flowering 

 plant, growing about a foot high, and blooming in March, 

 April, and May. The blossoms are rosy purple, and remain 

 three weeks in perfection, if kept dry. This fine species of 

 Cattleya, when grown strong, will produce as many as nine or 

 ten flowers on a spike. It is one of the finest Orchids that 

 can be grown for the May exhibitions, the colour being 

 distinct and different from that of any other Cattleya. One 

 of the finest plants of this species we ever saw was flowered 

 by G. Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, Timperley, and had 

 numerous spikes, some bearing as many as ten flowers ; it was 

 in beautiful health, splendidly flowered, and measured some 

 three feet in diameter. This plant was named C. Skinneri 

 oculata. — Guatemala, Costa. Eica. 



¥lG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4270 ; Bateman, Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 13 ; Paxton, 

 Mag. Bot, xi. 193, with tab. ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xxi. 548, fig. 107. 



C. Skinneri alba, Bchh. f. — A most charming and delicate 

 form of this flne Cattleya, having pure snow white flowers, 

 produced in the same Avay as those of the type. We 

 received a grand spike of this from Mr. Hill, gardener 

 to Sir Nathaniel de Rothschild, Tring Park, Tring. — Costa 

 Rica. 



¥lG.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 112. 



C. speciosissima Lowii, Anderson. — This is a very hand- 

 some form of the C. labiata section. The stems are oblong 

 and deeply channelled, each bearing an ovate shining leaf ; 

 flowers large, frequently measuring eight inches in diameter, 

 borne upon a somewhat short spike three or four together ; 

 sepals and petals broad soft flesh colour, the latter being the 

 broadest with erose edges ; the lip forms a circle, through 

 closing over the column, the front portion being of an intense 

 amethyst colour, varied with white and yellow markings 

 towards the centre, where are also several lines of bright 

 amethyst. It is a gem amongst Cattleyas, but it is not so 

 free-flowering as some of the other kinds. — Venezuela. 



C. speciosissima regina, Bchb. f. — A distinct and handsome 

 variety, flowered by Sir T. Lawrence, Bart., M.P,, in 1884; 



