Plate 108 



CATTLEYA QUADRICOLOR. 



Foiir-coloured Cattleya. 



Gen, Char. Sepala membranacea vel carnosa^ patentiaj a?qualia. retnla soepius mrjora 



Labellum cucullatum^ columnam involvenSj triloLnm vol indivisnm. 

 semiteres^ marginata^ cum labello articulata, Anthera 



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o 



caniosa 



membranaceis. PolUnla 4^ caudiculis totidem rcplicatis. 



(AiiwrlcauaJ 



hidhoscB. Folia soUtaria vel hina^ coriacca, Flores icrmiaales sperh.^i^simi, soppo c spaihn ma'jm] 

 eriimpcntes, LindL 



Cattlbya (jnadricnior ; caulibns angustis compressis monopliyllis, pcdnTinilis l"2-nt*ris, nt^p'^Hs 



obloTigo-lanceolatis obtusis^ petalis spathnlntis 3-plo Intioi-ibns, labi^llo intliviso cucnllafo liauil 

 dilatatOj niargine anterloro subciispo, Ttftf, uHtrij Garth Chruu. 180J-, ^>. 209, 



Gattleya qnadricolor. LindL mss.j Bot. M<i<j. t. 550 i. 



Oattleya quadi-icolor. Tlnfrm. in Gard. Chrun. Lc. 



This beautiful Cattlcya 



] 



r years ago to ]SIr. lluckcr from New Ornnada 



by one of his correspondents who met with a solitary plant of it on the ujjjx'r waters of 



Rio Magdalena. It soon flowered in Mr. Ruckcr's C(dlection, and the 



spccim 



then produced were forwarded to Dr. Lindley, who, being satisfied that it was a new 

 species, gave it the appropriate name of C. fjUffdrhihr, in allusion to the four colours, 

 while, yeUow, lilac, and purple, that arc observable in its blussums, 

 produced in 



The 



er are 



the winter months, and continue in perfection a lon^ time, but the) 



spread themselves out so freely as those of most other Cattleyas do 

 When I first examined the flowersi of C. quadncofor I felt no doub 



Dr. 1 



ley was right in regarding it as 



and even to the 



time I 



Cattleya wdth such closely imbricated white flowers, nor arc its long upright 

 pseudobulbous stems 



be matched amonj; the extensive im])ortations 



iior 



cultural Society, the Messrs. Low, and others have received from the country m 

 it was originally found. Yet this very circum«5tance Mi^rgests a doubt as to whet 

 may not ultimately prove to be what botanists call a pr/ona (i.e. a monster) of 

 other species, for if it were really an independent form, it se(«m8 .scarcely tredibli 

 none of the collectors now (?. e. 18G5) in New Granada should have met with it. 



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peluria^ to what spccir^ ttiust it be nH 



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pens a rather extensive field of inquiry, aud implicate^ n large number of 



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