‘CATTLEYA DOWIANA AUREA (YOUNG’S VAR). 
[PLaTE 432]. 
Native of Metieuia, United States of Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs stout, clavate, becoming furrowed with age, monophyllous. 
Leaves oblong-obtuse, coriaceous, evergreen and persistent. Scape erect, terminal 
and stout, bearing three to four flowers, each flower measuring some six inches or 
more across; sepals linear-lanceolate, plain at the edges; petals much broader than 
the sepals, ovate, undulated and dentate, all of a rich bright yellow; lip obcordate, 
three-lobed, side lobes not meeting over the column, deep maroon-purple, streaked 
with forked lines of rich golden yellow, anterior lobe deeply cleft in front, 
beautifully undulated at the margin, having next the throat two rich golden yellow 
large eye-like spots; the centre of the lobe and the border all round is deep rich 
maroon-purple, more or less streaked with broad lines of bright golden yellow. 
CaTTLeyA DowIANA AUREA (Young’s var.), supra. 
CaTtLEYA Dowrana aurea, Williams and Moore, Williams’ Orchid Album, 
u., t. 84; L’Illustration Horticole, 3rd_ series, t. 493; . Reichenbachia, i., t. 5; 
Lindenia, i., t. 28; The Garden, xxi., t. 322, p- 80; Williams’ Orchid-Grower’s 
_ Manual, p. 180. 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea was first sent home by Gustav Wallis from New 
‘Grenada about twenty-three years ago, and Roezl, who afterwards found it, fixes the 
locality in which it grows some 600 miles distant from that of the typical C. Dowiana, 
which had been introduced to our gardens a few years previously from Costa Rica, 
by Mr. Skinner; but it was originally found about 1850 by the veteran Polish 
traveller and collector, Warscewicz, whose consignment of plants, however, arrived in 
this country dead. It had been the intention of Warscewicz to dedicate this fine 
Cattleya to the famous Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing, the most enthusiastic patroness of 
horticulture in her day; but in the C. Lawrenceana since discovered in British 
Guiana, we have a very beautiful and distinct plant (see Orcurp ALBUM, vol. viii., 
t. 242). This is dedicated to her equally interested son, Sir Trevor Lawrence, 
Bart., M.P., Burford Lodge, Dorking, Surrey, the president of the Royal Horticultural 
Society of England. 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea, although separated by so long a distance from the 
typical plant, with no intermediate station between, as far as is known, cannot lay 
¢laim to be anything but a geographical variety of it; but yet it is a superior form, and 
the one here figured must be allowed to claim first rank in the way of varieties 
Its principal differences are in the rich clear golden yellow of its sepals and petals, 
and the amount of the same rich colour upon its lip. This variety originated 
with Reginald Young, Esq., Fringilla, Linnet Lane, Liverpool, who, when it flowered 
