CATTLEYA CRISPA BUCHANANIANA. 
[PuatE 81. ] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems clavate, eight to ten inches long, furrowed, monophyllous. 
_ Leaves evergreen, coriaceous, about a foot long, oblong-lanceolate, obtuse, emarginate. 
Scape emerging from a large oblong compressed leafy spathe, which is obliquely 
acute at the apex, and bearing a four to seven-flowered raceme. Flowers large and very 
handsome, with a beautifully crisp-edged and veined lip; sepals lanceolate-obovate, 
that is, broadest upwards, the margins revolute at the base, the tips recurved, of a 
very delicate tint of blush white; petals of the same colour as the sepals, much 
roader, ovate, with the base cuneate, and the margin strongly undulated and 
crisped; tip with the basal part or side lobes rolled around the column, recurved in 
- front, crisped at the edge, and showing a feathery blotch of purplish-crimson on a 
: white ground: the throat bright yellow with several purple-crimson streaks in the 
____-‘ middle part, these passing outwards to the antical portion, which is broadly ovate 
acuminate, recurved at the tip, strongly frilled or crisped, of a bright rich rosy 
‘imson, margined with white, and charmingly reticulated over the apical portion. 
Column enclosed, clavate, semiterete, marginate. 
CATTLEYA CRISPA BUCHANANIANA, supra. 
The charming subject we now have the pleasure to bring under the notice of 
‘our readers is a grand variety of the old Cattleya crispa, and one of the most 
‘beautiful and richly-coloured flowers. that have ever come under our notice. There 
_ te several varieties of: Cattleya crispa, but that which is now before eile the 
ae finest We know of, and moreover produces its flowers in great profusion. We 
a exhibited @ specimen of this variety at the International Show in Edinburgh, where 
It wag greatly admired by the lovers of Orchids, the plant being finely in flower. 
ming at a time when there are comparatively few Orchids in the flowering state, 
he Ay _erispa and its varieties come in extremely useful at the many exhibitions held 
: during the month of September, and help to make a good display. There is some 
lifference of opinion amongst the Orchid authorities as to the proper generic name 
. ‘ <a plant, some referring it to Cattleya and some to Lelia ; we follow cat 
: eae deseriber of the species, the late Dr. Lindley, by retaining it im Cattleya : 
mth there is but a very slight technical difference between them, though m 
on case Cattleya has precedence of Lelia. ited 
re drawing was taken from the specimen above alluded to before it was exhi att 
. That plant-is now in the possession of J. Buchanan, Esq., Os 
‘inburgh, in whose honour it has been named. Mr. Buchanan 1s 4 grea 
