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C, virginalis, Linden ct Andre. — This is a white variety of 

 C. Eldorado, and is a very chaste and most desirable plant. The 

 sepals and petals are snow white ; the lip and column of the 

 same colour ; the throat bright orange. This plant flowers 

 during August and September, a season when Orchid flowers 

 are becoming scarce ; and its blossoms are deliciously sweet- 

 scented. — The Amazon country. 

 Fig.— III. Hort., 3 ser., t. 257. 



C. yirginalis rosea, Williams. — This desirable variety is like 

 the preceding in every respect, saving that it bears a distinct 

 rosy purple blotch on the front of the anterior portion of the 

 lip ; it blooms during August and September. — The Amazon 

 country. 



C. Wageneri, Bchb. f. — A splendid free-flowering Cattleya, 

 being a white-flowered form of the Mossice section, and with 

 flowers equal to those of that species in size. The sepals and 

 petals are white ; the lip also white, with a rich yellow patch 

 in the centre. A fine plant for exhibition, producing blossoms 

 in June and July, and lasting about three weeks in perfection. 

 A very rare plant. — La Giiayra. 

 FiG.—Xenia Orch., i. t. 13. 



C. Walkeriaiia, Gardner.— A truly elegant dwarf species, 

 with bulb-like stems about four inches high, bearing an oblong- 

 elliptic obtuse leathery leaf, and large rose-coloured flowers 

 the lip, which is of a richer rose than the other parts, having 

 a slight tinge of yellow. There are generally two flowers 

 produced on a spike, each measuring five inches across, 

 the flowers being produced during the winter on distinct 

 slender stems, which are either leafless or bear only rudi- 

 mentary leaves ; the blossoms last four or five weeks in 

 beauty, which is longer than those of any other Cattleya, 

 besides which they are sweet-scented, and will fill the house 

 with their perfume. We always grow this plant suspended 

 from the roof, in a place where there is plenty of light, but 

 not too much sun, on a block of wood, surrounded by a little 

 sphagnum moss. — Brazil. 



ma.—Bot. Reg., 1847, t. 42; Paxton, Mag. Bol., xv. 49, with tab.; 

 Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. t. 3 ; Pescatorea, t. 41 ; Orchid Album, iv. t. 154 ; Gard. 

 Chron., N.S., xxii. 780, figs. 132, 133. 



Syn. — Cattleya bulbosa, 



C.Wallisii.— See Cattleya virginalis. 



