CATTLEYA CALUMMATA. 
. [Pirate 166. | 
A Garden Hybrid. 
Epiphytal. Stems somewhat slender, clavate, diphyllous, three or four jointed, 
purplish. Leaves oblong obtuse, emarginate, of a pale grey colour. Peduncles two- 
flowered. Flowers four and a half inches across, beautifully spotted, on a ground 
delicately flushed with purple, and of a very pale greenish brown outside; sepals ne 
oblong, upwards of, two inches long, the dorsal one straight, the lateral ones slightly 
faleate, abruptly acute at the apex, about a quarter of an inch wide where set on at 
the base, the inner surface white slightly suffused with purple, spotted throughout with 
numerous smallish. round or transversely oblong dots of magenta-purple, the outer 
surface pale brownish green, with a flush of purple, the spotting of the interior 
showing through; petals bluntly lanceolate, as broad as the sepals in the middle 
part, but a little narrowed towards the tip, the base narrowed like a claw, coloured 
like the sepals; lip as long as the sepals, three-lobed, the basal lobes an inch long, 
meeting along the back of the column, recurved and abruptly rounded in nt, 
flushed with pale purple, as in the sepals, narrowed about half way up to an 
isthmus, about half an inch wide, by an open rounded sinus, the front lobe trans- 
versely roundish-oblong emarginate, the margin somewhat undulate and crenate, both 
surfaces of an intensely rich magenta, the under part of the basal portion blush- 
white, and the magenta line inside forming a broad bar three-eighths of an ine 
wide, extending to the base of the lip. Column stout, clavate, with thin produced 
margins, purple. Pollen-masses four. 
CaTTLEYA cALUMMATA, André, Revue Horticole, 1883, 564, with tab. ; Gardeners’ 
Chronicle, n.s. xx., 786 (calummata, by error). 
In our present subject we have one of the fine Hybrid Cattleyas which have 
been raised by M. Alfred Bleu, of Paris. It is the result of a cross between Cattleya 
Aclandi@ and C. intermedia. These hybrids are most difficult to obtain, although 
the Messrs, Veitch & Sons, and others, have been successful in producing some of 
very great beauty. The one now before us is a most charming plant, and one 
that will be welcomed by all those growers whose accommodation 18 limited, as 
well as by those that have more space at their command ; for it will be seen by 
ied figure that the plant is of dwarf-growing habit, and it is also free-blooming, 
indeed, it is said to bloom two or even three times a year. The new hybrid 
partakes more of the characteristics of C. Aclandie in its manner of growth and 
m the size of its flowers, but it appears to be more free in its development. 
We are indebted, as already noted, to M. Alfred Bleu, of Paris, for the pro- 
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