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CATTLE’ YA INTERME’ DIA, 
~ INTE EDIATE CATTLEYA. 
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GENUS. Cartteya. Linp P foliola e a b 
vel carnosa, patentia, equalia; teins ora sepius majora, LaBEerLumM cum co- 
lumna articulatum, cucullatum, integrum vel trilobum, columnam involve 
Cotumna clavata, elongata, semiteres, marginata. Awriene quadriloculares, 
carnose, septorum marginibus membranaceis. Po1iinia quatuor, caudicu 
totidem replicatis. Hers Americanz, epiphyte, pseudobulbiferz, foliis 
coriaceis, floribus terminalibus magnis coags igs e —_ a magna erum- 
pentibus. Ewpxzicner: Genera Plantar 1 
SPECIES. CarrLeya INTERMEDIA; (GRAHAM) FOLIIS oblongis emargi- 
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natis cauli equalibus, perigonii foliolis ibanjenlabes lineari-oblongis obtusius- 
culis subundulatis, labello trilobo lamellis pluribus in medio carnosis cristato, 
laciniis lateralibus ovatis obtusis planiusculis intermedio crispo rotundato den- 
ticulat 
CHARACTER OF THE GENUS, CaTTLEYA. PerERIGON with the outer 
leaflets or sepals membranous or fleshy, spreading, equal ; the inner 
ones or petals generally larger. — ‘Laseitum articulate, with the co- 
lumn hood-shaped, entire, or three-lobed, enclosing the ‘column. z 
Coxiumn club-shaped, long, semi-cylindrical, bordered. A 
four-celled, fleshy, the borders of the partition membranous. _ = 
masses four, with as many bent back caudicles. 
DESCRIPTION OF THE SpEciES, CATTLEYA INTERMEDIA. STEMS 
elongated, scarcely thickening into pseudo-bulbs. Leaves two or 
three at the top of the stem, oblong, four or five inches long, spread- 
ing, nearly flat, blunt or emarginate at the apex, thick and veinless. 
PEDUNCLE proceeding from a convolute sheathing blunt spatha, some- 
times scarcely longer, sometimes twice as long as the spatha, bearing 
one or two flowers, each one having at its base a small broad, pointed 
bract. PERIGON consisting of five leaflets, very nearly equal to each 
other, linear, oblong, more or less undulate, about two inches long, of 
a lilac colour, with a few longitudinal somewhat greenish lines 
