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having deep rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a bright rosy 

 lilac lip, which colour is carried back, and is suffused over its 

 entire surface, saving a yellow blotch at the entrance to the 

 throat. This variety forms a pleasing companion both to the 

 light and dark-coloured forms. 



C. Trianse Russelliana, Williams. — A very fine form of this 

 winter-blooming species. The sepals are three and a half 

 inches long and upwards of an inch broad; the petals upwards 

 of two inches broad, waved at the edges and recurved, white 

 tinged with rose ; the lip two inches across the centre, with 

 the edge beautifully frilled ; and the throat bright orange. The 

 colouring, which is well carried back into the throat, is intense 

 crimson-magenta, this colour being as dark at the margin as at 

 the base. We saw a grand plant of this in Baron Schroder's 

 collection at Staines, bearing sixteen flowers, and a most 

 effective plant it was, being in vigorous health. This is 

 without doubt one of the finest of the dark-lipped varieties. 



C. Trianse splendidissima, Williams and Moore. — A» 

 most beautiful and chaste variety, having flowers six inches in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals pure white, the petals two and a 

 half inches across, the sepals broad and of good substance ; 

 lip two inches across, rich deep magenta, beautifully frilled, 

 the colour being carried to the margin, and well back into the 

 throat, which is orange and white. 

 Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. t. 160. 



C. Trianse Williamsii, Moore. — One of the most distinct 

 forms of this grand Cattleya. A very free-flowering and 

 vigorous-growing kind ; sepals and petals blush white, very 

 broad and of good substance, the petals distinctly veined with 

 rosy magenta, especially tovv^ards the centre ; lip nicely fringed, 

 of an intense crimson-purple. This colour commences from 

 the edge of the lip, and is carried far back into the throat, as 

 well as on to that part of the lip which encloses the column ; 

 in the throat is a slight blotch of yellow about an eighth of an 

 inch wide. The leaves of this variety are often tinted with 

 bronze colour. 



C. YeitcMana, Hort. — A garden variety, raised at Chelsea, 

 produced between C. crisjm and C. labiata. The petals are of 

 a pale pink, the sepals being a richer and brighter shade of the 

 same colour ; lip deep rich crimson-purple with yellow centre. 

 It blooms during the spring months. — Garden hybrid. 



