CATTLEYA MASSATANA. 
[PLATE 362.] 
Native of Antioquia, U.S. Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs clavate, fusiform, monophyllous. Leaves oblong, obtuse, 
emarginate at the apex, some ten inches long, and upwards of two inches broad, 
thick and coriaceous in texture, and deep green. Scape issuing from a somewhat 
small sheath on the apex of the bulb, bearing several flowers, which are seven or 
more inches in diameter, and richly perfumed; sepals about four inches long and 
two inches broad, recurved at the tips, in colour a bright rosy mauve, paler towards 
the base ; petals somewhat ovate, upper part contracted, afterwards spreading and 
undulated (this contraction is not, however, a fixed character), bright rose-colour, 
mottled and flushed with white towards the base; lip subpandurate, some two-and- 
a-half inches across, rolled over the column at the base, very deeply bi-lobed in 
front, and deeply lobed and frilled on the edge, anterior lobe rich magenta-crimson, 
the throat striped in the centre to the base with brownish crimson on a yellow 
ground, and bearing on each side a very large bright orange-yellow eye-like spot, 
the upper edge bordered with magenta-crimson. Column short, obtuse, included. 
CaTTLEYA MAssAIANA, supra. 
We have figured many Cattleyas in the pages of this work, and amongst them 
have appeared some most beautiful species, varieties, and hybrid forms; of these 
one in particular, named Cattleya Hardyana, is especially noteworthy. It belongs to 
the Gigas section, and is a supposed natural hybrid between C. Dowiana aurea 
and C. gigas, as these two plants are found growing in the same district in the 
State of Antioquia in U.S. Colombia, and at the present time it still remains one 
of our rarest cultivated Cattleyas. The plant we here depict is equally fine in 
general contour, and at the same time thoroughly distinct, and even richer in colour. 
It is also a supposed natural hybrid from the two plants above named, and it 
partakes in a marked manner of the characters of the two parents, both in the 
colouring of its splendid flowers, as well as its habit of growth. These forms have 
only been found of late years, having been imported unawares, and sold as C. gigas, 
a plant originally found by the collector Warscewicz somewhere about the year 
1848; but these plants did not long survive their arrival in this country, and 
its flowers were never seen. It was more recently introduced by M. Linden, of 
Brussels, but the late Mr, B. Roezl was the fortunate individual to introduce it in 
quantity some eighteen years ago; and we well remember first seeing this lovely 
Cattleya in flower, at which time there were but a few plants alive in Europe, but now 
it is imported in large quantities, which upon flowering are found to vary consider- 
