Plate 191. 



CATTLEYA DOWIANA. 



■ A 



Captain Bow's Catlleya, 



Gen. Char. {Vide supra, Plate 108.) 



Cattle 



J. . _ .. r V > "-'o — > 



spatha obtusa pedunculo 2-6-floro subaequali^ floribus speciosissimis^ Pcpab's lauceolatis 

 acutis sessilibus plains^ petalis plus quam dnplo latioribus margine coutortis obtusiiisculis 

 labello sub^qualibus, labello maximo obscure trilobo oblongo emarglnato crispo disco licvi 

 amplissimo velutino atro-purpureo veuis aureis pulclierrinie ornatOj colinnua subarcuata labello 

 fere obtecta et labello 3-pIo breviore. 



Gard 



Mag 



This superb Cattleya was originally discovered by Y^ 

 him plants 



Costa E 



were forwarded to this country; but arriving in bad condition they 

 eventually died. The dried specimens moreover that accompanied the living plants 



last ten years doubts had 



seem to have been mislaid or destroyed, so that during the 



be entertained as to th 



of a really distinct species of such 



pled beauty as that which the letters of the veteran traveller described. And in the 

 meantime his name was given to another supposed species respecting which the greatest 



confusion now prevails, and which, whethei 



be a mere variety of C. Mossiw 



aUata) 



perfectly different from the glorious th 



hich even the 



double plate on the opposite page fails to do adequate j 



Fortunately for the lovers of fine Orchids the plant, such as'Warszewicz originally 



described it, was rediscovered in 1864 by M. Arce, a zealous naturalist who was engaged 

 collect birds, insects, and plants, for Mr. Salvin and Mr. Skinner, throughout some 

 the richest portions of Costa Eica. The plants which Arce sent home were purchased 



ty Messrs. Veitch and Son, in whose establishment at Chelsea one of them flowered 



^01' the first time in the autumn of \%Q 



of 



Beautiful 



Mr. Fitch's drawincr, it pro- 



bably gives but a poor idea of what the plant will ultimately become, for 



specimens 



flowers on a scape 



Messrs. Veitch's possession ha\ 



some 



of them borne as many as fii 



