CATTLEYA DOWIANA AUREA STATTERIANA. 
[Puate 468]. 
Native of U.S. Colombia. 
Epiphytal.  Psewdobulbs stem-like, clavate, furrowed, bearing a single leaf, which 
is thick and coriaceous in texture, nearly a foot in length, and deep green. 
Flowers very large; sepals and petals of a soft creamy white, the latter much the 
broader, prettily toothed and waved at the edges; lip three-lobed, large and full, 
the side lobes encircling the column, the front lobe emarginate and_ beautifully 
_undulated round the margin, intense deep velvety crimson-magenta, having a few 
bold streaks of golden yellow running into it, and at the sides near the throat is 
a large blotch of tawny. orange-yellow. 
CaTTLEYA DowIANA AUREA STATTERIANA, supra. 
The illustration of the above-named plant affords another example of the 
beautiful forms which Cattleya Dowiana aurea breaks into—the ordinary plant which 
we have already figured in Vol. ii, t. 84, of the Axpum. This plant was 
originally found*by one of M. Linden’s plant collectors in Colombia, near Frontino, 
in the state of Antioquia, which we are told by the late B. Roezl is upwards of 
600 miles from the spot in Costa Rica where Warscewicz first detected C. 
Dowiana in the year 1850. C. Dowiana aurea is a geographical variety of that plant. 
C. Dowiana appears to be farther removed from the general range of Cattleyas, 
and it appears to exist in its native home in very limited numbers; it was 
found in 1850, whilst C. Dowiana aurea did not make its début until about 
eighteen years afterwards. 
The very fine variety here figured was. flowered in the grand collection of 
plants brought together by J. Statter, Esq., Whitefield, Manchester, after whom it 
is named, and which are under the skilful management of Mr. Johnston. This plant 
differs much from the variety of Cattleya Dowiana aurea figured by us as 
C. Dowiana aurea (Young's var.) on t. 432 of the last volume, for grand as was 
that form, this is far more distinct from the typical plant. 
Cattleya Dowiana aurea Statteriana is a stout-growing and robust evergreen plant, 
and one which requires exactly the same treatment as C. Dowiana awrea—that is, it 
should be kept quiet and cool from the time that the growth is made up after the 
blooms are past, and not to allow the plant to feel any excitement until the following 
spring. Jf this plan is adopted, C. Dowiana aurea will be found to produce flowers 
as freely and regularly as does the old favourite, C. Mossie; but if the plant is 
allowed to grow in the autumn, as a matter of course it cannot produce growth 
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