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the ovary, column, sepals, and petals are of a rich purple 

 colour ; lip dark mauve-purple, having the two lateral yellow 

 spots usual in the type. Professor Reichenbach thinks this 

 one of the grandest Cattleyas ever seen. — Venezuela. 



C. SUperba, Lindley. — This truly beautiful plant is a slow- 

 growing species, usually attaining ten inches high, with club- 

 shaped stems and a pair of short thick ovate-oblong obtuse 

 leaves. It flowers in June and July, and the blossoms, which 

 are very fragrant, and of a deep rose colour, with a rich 

 magenta-crimson lip, will remain in bloom for three weeks ; 

 it produces three to six flowers on a spike, and is a very 

 distinct species. It requires plenty of water at all times, and 

 should never be allowed to get into a shrivelled state — if so, 

 it is very difScult to restore it to a healthy condition ; it 

 requires more heat than the other Cattleyas, and is best grown 

 on a block of wood or basket with live sphagnum moss, but is 

 difficult to propagate. — British Guiana. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4083 ; Serf.. Orch., t. 22 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., is. 265, 

 with tab. ; Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 24 ; Flo7^e des Seri-es, t. 926. 



C. SUperba splendens, Lemaire. — A distinct variety of the 

 preceding. The flowers are much larger, the sepals and 

 petals being considerably longer than in the form originally 

 introduced ; sepals and petals deep rich purplish rose ; lip 

 white at the base, magenta-crimson in front, and having in 

 addition several lines or crests of golden yellow towards the 

 middle. It is altogether a very distinct and handsome variety, 

 and forms a fine companion to the type when the two are 

 grown side by side. — Rio Negro. 



Fig.— III. Eort., i. 605 ; OrcMd Album, i. t. 33. 



C. TrianSB, Linden et Echb. f. — This lovely winter-blooming 

 Cattleya, of which there are an immense number of varieties, 

 all of them beautiful, and some of them particularly so, re- 

 sembles C. MossicB in its habit of growth, but generally attains 

 larger dimensions. The leaves are of a light green. The flowers 

 are produced during the winter months, and measure six to 

 eight inches in diameter. The sepals and petals are usually 

 blush ; the lip blush, or pale rose colour outside ; the throat 

 orange or yellow, and the front rich rosy purple, more or less 

 intense. This is considered by many to be a variety only 

 of C. Warscewiczii; hut whether a species, sub-species, or 



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