CATTLEYA VELUTINA. 
[PLatE 26.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems slender, terete, from twelve to eighteen inches high, support- 
ing the evergreen foliage, and furnished at intervals with short ovate appressed 
bracts. Leaves in pairs, oblong, acute, widest near the base, leathery, about eight 
inches long, and an inch and a half broad, of a dark green colour. Scape two- 
flowered, issuing from a terminal compressed sheath or bract. Flowers of medium 
size, stout in texture, tawny orange, the lip white marked with purplish spots 
arranged in radiating lines, very fragrant ; sepals ligulate-oblong, acute, recurved, ric 
tawny orange, spotted with purple; petals of the same colour, cuneate-oblong, acute, 
somewhat lobulate or wavy; lp three-lobed, the side lobes very short semi-ovate, 
partially enclosing the column, the front lobe large, roundish-ovate, apiculate, wavy and 
toothletted, the disk between the side lobes yellow with purplish streaks, the radiating 
veins purplish, the front or middle lobe white with dark purple veins, everywhere 
clothed with velvety pubescence. Column free at the back, marked with many purple 
spots, and having a purplish border to the anther-bed. 
_ Carrirya VELUTINA, Feichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1870, 140, 1373; 
Id. 1872, 1259, figs. 288, 289; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed. 185. 
This fine Orchid first flowered in 1870, under the care of Mr. A. Williams, in 
the collection of J oseph Broome, Esq., of Didsbury, Manchester, and subsequently in 
that of E. G. Wrigley, Esq., of Bury. What is described as a still finer variety of 
the same plant appeared shortly after in the collection of Consul Schiller, of Hamburgh. 
One of the most remarkable and special peculiarities of the species is the powerful 
fragrance of its flowers, which is so strongly developed as to scent. the whole house 
m which a blooming plant is placed. : 
It is a very rare as well as a very distinct species. We have, ourselves, only 
met with one example in bloom, besides that from what our. illustration was taken, 
and that was the specimen in the collection of Mr. J. Broome, above referred to, as 
being the first which bloomed in this country. Our figure was taken from a plant 
Which flowered recently in the grand collection of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., 
ho was good enough to send it for our artist to sketch, and he has succeeded 
m Securing - a very faithful likeness of it. We have no doubt our collectors will 
meet with it in their journeyings in its native country, but it must be rare there, 
of We should have obtained more of it; most probably, like others of its genus, it 
8 difficult to secure. It resembles Cattleya bicolor in its habit of growth, the 
— bearing two leaves, which ‘grow about twelve to eighteen inches in length. 
“epals and petals are of a rich tawny orange colour, irregularly spotted — 
