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height of its perfection, about the middle of May, this plant bore 
twenty-two flower clusters, each cluster containing from four to 
eight flowers. 
Mr, Maxon secured the plant in a garden at Cartago. Upon 
its arrival here it was placed in a sunny position near the roof in 
a house of medium temperature and humidity, a treatment to 
which it responded readily as the above record of its flowering 
will show. 
This Cattleya is closely related to C. Bowringiana, a native of 
Honduras, which differs in being of larger growth, with flowers 
of a somewhat different color, and especially in its time of flower- 
ing, which is in the fall instead of in the spring. 
The genus Caétleya was named by Lindley in honor of Mr. 
Cattley, a great lover and successful cultivator of these plants in 
the early part of the nineteenth century. It is distributed mainly 
from southern Mexico to Brazil, and is represented by about 
twenty species. It is the various species of this genus which fur- 
