CATTLEYA BRYMERIANA. 
[PLaTe 184.] | 
Native of Brazil. 
_ Epiphytal. Stems clavate, stoutish, diphyllous. Leaves oblong obtuse, broadish, 
‘coriaceous, of a full green. Scape four to five-flowered, green, spotted with red, 
issuing from a purplish-tinted compressed oblong acute sheath. Flowers full medium 
size, about five inches in expansion, very distinct in character, showy; sepals lanceolate 
oblong, the lateral ones slightly curved downwards, plane, with a short hard tip or 
apiculus, bright purplish rose; petals broadly oval, an inch and a half wide, narrowed 
to the base, bluntish, of a rather deeper purplish rose than the sepals, very slightly 
undulated; Up narrow, slightly deflexed, two and a half inches long, the tubular 
portion being nearly two inches long, with the side lobes closely folded over the 
column, the under side of the tube yellowish, the upper side pale lilac in the basal 
half, dark magenta-purple at the truncate front, from the base of the throat to 
the mouth is clear orange-yellow, beyond which a broad line, expanding into a 
semicircular form, extends over the base of the front lobe; the latter is transversely 
oblong, deeply emarginate, rich purple-magenta, this colour breaking off suddenly 
near the mouth of the tube—the lip, therefore, has the front lobe broader than 
long, and is remarkable for the transverse disposition both of its form and colouring. 
Column white, about an inch long, semiterete, slightly winged, the cap pale magenta. 
CATTLEYA BryMErIana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., xx., 492. 
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We consider this one of the most beautiful species of Cattleya yet introduced, 
the colours being brilliant, and the plants producing a goodly number of flowers. 
{t is similar in its manner of growth to a short-bulbed Lelia elegans, and seems 
to us to be, not improbably, a natural hybrid. This fine novelty was introduced 
by Messrs. Low & Co., and has been named in honour of W. E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., 
Usington House, Dorchester. We have to thank Mr. Brymer for the material from 
Which our drawing was taken, the product of a well-grown plant, which bloomed in 
September of last year under the care of Mr. Powell. ae 
Cattleya Brymeriana is a compact-growing evergreen plant, similar in growth 
to Lelia elegans. The flowers are of medium size, the sepals and petals of ~ a 
rosy purple, the lip narrow, with a closely folded tubular base, nearly two a 
long, yellowish below, pale lilac above. the front part veined with magenta-purp 
rth and showing a clear yellow throat, cut off abruptly in front. It blooms 
‘uring September, and lasts some time in beauty. | 
This wi be a most useful species, as it blossoms at a time when Orchid flowers 
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“are getting scarce. Our new Cattleyas are becoming very accommodating, several 0 
