Plate 119 



CATTLEYA ACLANDI^ 



Lady Acland's Cattleya. 



ajora 



La- 



helium cncullatum, columnam mvolvens, trilobum vel indivisum. Colnmna clavatn, eloiigntn, 

 semiteres, marginata, cum labello articulata. Anthera carnosa, 4-locularis, septoruin margmiDnH 

 mombranaceis. Pollmia 4, caudicuHs totidem replicatis.— Herbae ej[>i]r,hjlm (Americana^) T'"^^^^^-^ 

 lulhoscs. Folia soUtaria vel Una, coriacea. Florcs tcnninaJcs spedo^isawd, sojjc c qmiha mojna 

 erumventes. Lindl. 



Cattleya Aclandiaj foliis ollipticis, floribus binis, sepalis potalisque herbacols obovatn-laiurojatis 



sequalibus uiidulatis purpureo-maculatis, labelli plani calvi hypocliilio dilatato pauU> sul>n- 

 paiido epicliilio orbicular! rcniformi emarginato. Lindl. 



Cattleya Aclandise. Lindl. Lot Becj. v. 26. t. 48. Paxt Mag. of Bot. v. 0. fA. FL d,s Sarr>^, 



V. 7. /. 674. 



One of the handsomest of a very handsome genus, distinguished by Dr. LmcHry 

 with the name of the late lamented Lady Acland, of Killerton, Devon, ^y;™'^^^';|; 

 plant was first introduced from Brazil, and from a drawing by her La.lyship the fil^uH' 

 in the ' Botanical Register ' was engraved. Since then living plants Avcrc sent to K.•^^ 

 from Bahia through the kindness of J. Wetherall, Esq., her B. M. Consul at 1 aini )a, 

 Brazil. The flowers are charmingly varied in colour, and the structure of the iabollurn 



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departs from the usual form, constituting (with Cattleya Ucolor) a distmct section o ^^^^ 

 genus, distinguished by the base of the lip being too narrow and too spreadu.g o co^ 

 the column. It flowers in the early summer months, and requires the same trcatinoi 



that is ordinnrily given to Cattleyas. t • t 1 



Descr. Pseudohulhs cauliform, terete, jointed, four to five inches long, striut r^, 

 bmnchcd at the base, and sheathed with membranaceous spafhfs at the joints. 

 two, terminal, elliptical, obtuse, thick and fleshy. From the centre of *^^^ J^^''^^||^ 

 leaves the peduncle appears, bearing two large very hand'^ome/of/v7X ^"^'^'Y^'. 

 Vetah uniform, spreading, two to two and a quarter inches long, ''^'''''^"'';7'' '^^^ ' 

 firm, fleshy, yellow-green, strongly spotted and blotched with dark purple on tno VV^^^ 

 or anterior side, much less distinctly so at the back. Lip large, P^^'^^'^^^'^^Jjl"^"^^^ ^^^^^^ 

 than the petals or sepals, panduriform; the base narrow and f^prcadiiig, \m i^J> ^^^^^ ^ 

 ^obcs so small that they do not include the column, as is usual m tins gen , 



