CATTLEYA TRIANZ REGINA. 
[PLaTE 466]. 
Native of U.S. Colombia. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs stem-like, clavate, becoming furrowed with age, about 
a foot in height, monophyllous. Leaves strap-shaped, coriaceous in texture, some 
eight inches in length, and rich deep green in colour. Scape stout, erect, issuing 
from an oblong compressed sheath, few-flowered. Flowers large and _ spreading, 
measuring some six inches across; the sepals and petals are of a pure white, the 
petals much the broader of the two, undulated at the margins; lip three-lobed, the 
lateral lobes convolute, the front lobe obovate and well spread open, prettily frilled 
and undulated at the margin, which is continued quite round, colour a soft and 
pleasing shade of purplish magenta, leaving a broad marginal border of pure 
Te the throat being shaded with pale yellow. Column club-shaped, slightly 
winged. 
CATTLEYA Tran, Linden and Reichenbach fil, in Botanische Zeitung, xviii. 
p. 74. Orchid Album, i. t. 45. The Garden, xxii., t. 346. Williams’ Orchid 
Grower's Manual, 6th ed., p. 201. 
CaTTLEYA TRIAN® REGINA, supra. 
We saw the plant of this beautiful section of the Jabiata group when it 
first flowered with Mr. Sigismund Rucker, in his famous garden at Wandsworth, 
and which Lindley named Cattleya quadricolor, without describing it. It was 
afterwards specified by Reichenbach, however, under the name it now bears, but 
neither them nor the growers could have formed the slightest idea that it would 
break out into so many splendid forms as now decorate our houses, amongst which 
the present variety does not stand the least. True, it cannot equal C. Triane 
Dodgsonu, figured in Vol. vi, t. 249, nor C. Triane fRusselliana, Vol. v., t. 219, 
for depth and richness of colouring, but it unites with the purity of the variety 
alba, a lip as gay as can be seen in any form. The plant we have here 
figured flowered with us in our own collection at the Victoria and Paradise 
Nurseries, Upper Holloway, in the early part of the present year. It has now 
passed into the grand collection of the Honourable F. L. Ames, of Boston, 
Massachusetts. We consider it. one of the most chaste and beautiful varieties 
that C. Triane has given us. 
Cattleya Triane Regine is a neat-growing evergreen plant, a free grower, and 
also a free-blooming kind. Like all the varieties to which we have directed the 
attention of our readers from time to time, it requires to be well drained, and to 
be firmly potted in a mixture of good brown peat fibre from which all the earthy 
