CATTLEYA WALKERIANA. 
[Puate 154. | 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems oval-oblong, shorter than the leaves, resembling pseudobulbs. 
Leaves solitary, elliptic-oblong obtuse, marginate, mucronato-apiculate, of stout leathery 
texture. Peduncles radical, two-flowered. Flowers large for the size of the plant, 
‘spreading, four and’ a half inches in diameter; sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, calloso- 
apiculate, of a pleasing dilute magenta-purple ; petals broadly-ovate acute, twice as 
broad as the sepals and of the same colour; Jip three-lobed, the lateral lobes 
strongly and obliquely truncated in front, rounded at the base, enveloping half the 
column, dilute magenta-purple, the middle lobe transversely siugdauobiong, cuneate 
at the base, plain and emarginate in front, deep magenta-crimson, with the contracted 
claw-like base pale sulphur, the margin denticulate, the base having rugose elevated 
veins or crests. Column very broadly winged, about half the length of the tubulose 
base of the lip, so that the front portion is exposed, pale magenta, sometimes tinged 
with green. 
CaTTLEYA WALKERIANA, Gardner, in Hooker's Journal of Botany, ii, 662; 
Reichenbach fil., in Pescatorea, t. 41; Lindley, in Paxton’s Flower Garden, t. 3. 
CaTrteyA BULBOSA, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1847, t. 42; Paxton’s Magazine 
of Botany, xv., 49. 
EpPIpDENDRUM WALKERIANUM, Reichenbach fil. MS.; Id. in Walpers’ Annales 
Botanices Systematice, vi., 416. 
The plant we now bring to the notice of our readers, is one that has been 
grown under various names in different collections. We flowered it many years ago, 
and it was shown by us at the exhibitions of the Royal Horticultural Society, when 
Dr. Lindley called it Cuttleya Walkeriana. It was for many years a very rare 
plant, but of late it has been imported by the Messrs. Low, Sander, and others, 
and having been sent over in large quantities, it can now be procured at a cheap 
rate. It is a most beautiful species, and one that takes but little room for its 
cultivation; it is, moreover, of easy culture if it is treated in the right way. 
There are different varieties to be found, varying in colour, but alike in growth. 
We are indebted to W. E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., of Ilsington House, Piddletown, 
Dorchester, for the specimen whence our drawing was taken, and which bloomed in 
his fine collection. 
Cattleya Walkeriana is a small-growing evergreen plant, with short bulb-like 
stems, and light green foliage. The plant attains the height of from four to six 
