CATTLEYA TRIAN. 
[Puate 45.]| 
Native of Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Stems oblong, club-shaped, furrowed, about a foot in height, clothed 
with whitish membranaceous sheaths. Leaves solitary, coriaceous, ligulate-oblong, 
recurved at the tip, of a deep green colour, six to eight inches long. Scape two 
or three-flowered, proceeding from a terminal oblong compressed brownish bract or 
sheath, about two inches long. lowers large, variable in colour, from white to a 
dilute delicate tint of rosy purple in the typical form, the lip being of a rich 
magenta; sepals three inches or more in length, oblong-lanceolate, plane, of a 
delicate blush or pallid tint of rosy purple; petals of the same colour, rhombeo-ovate, 
retuse, crispulate at the anterior edge; lp convolute at the base, where it is of a 
pale purplish mauve, the front lobe obovate, rounded and crimped in the anterior 
part, where it is bilobed, wholly covered with crimson-magenta, exceedingly rich and 
brilliant, the disk marked with a broad rich orange-yellow bilobed blotch. Column 
club-shaped, bearing at the tip a pair of sickle-shaped wings. 
CartieyaA Triana, Linden and Reichenbach fil., in Mohl and Schlechtendal’s 
Botanische Zeitung, xviii., 74 (1860); Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botamces 
Systematice, vi., 315. ; 
CATTLEYA LABIATA Linpic1ana, Karsten—fide Reichenbach fil. 
_ _Carrieya tapiata Triana, Duchartre, Journal de la Société Impériale d Hor- 
ticulture, 1860, 369—fide Reichenbach fil. 
EpIpENDRUM LABIATUM, var. TRIANA, Reichenbach  fil., 
Botanices Systematice, vi., 315. 
in Walpers’ Annales 
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of Cattleya was first obtained from Colombia for 
to whom we are indebted for so many 
It is one of the best and most useful 
and though very variable as regards 
which have been imported, it 
This very charming species 
European gardens, in 1856, by Mr. Linden, 
choice introductions amongst exotic plants. 
of the species, especially for winter decoration, 
the tinting of the flowers in the many distinct forms 
is always of a brilliant and strikingly beautiful appearance, owing to the rich 
colouring displayed on the lip. The shades of colour in the several kinds varies 
from pure white through blush white and pale pinkish rose to a pale shade of deep 
rose, the upper lobe of the. lip being of a rich magenta-crimson, — 
There are, as we have just said, many forms of Cattleya Triane. — That which 
Wwe now figure we consider to be a very good representative of : the typical form of 
the Species. Our drawing was taken from a very fine specimen grown in the 
beautiful collection of BR. B. Dodgson, Esq, of Beardwood, Blackburn, in which 
many forms of this lovely species occur, as we have already intimated under 
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