CATTLEYA GUTTATA WILLIAMSIANA. 
[Piate 212. | 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems (pseudobulbs) erect, club-shaped, furrowed, diphyllous. Leaves 
lanceolate-oblong acute, five to six inches long. Peduncles about five-flowered, 
issuing from a bluntish spathe which is green, tinged with brown, the rachis 
green, and the pedicels stout, two inches long, dull pale brownish purple. Flowers in 
erect corymbiform racemes, large and handsomely coloured; sepals linear-oblong 
obtuse or acute, pale purplish, with a flush of olive-green, variously striate or 
spotted, especially near the edge with deep magenta-purple; petals rather smaller 
and more obtuse, sometimes emarginate, of a deeper tint of olivaceous pale purple, 
and more distinctly and evenly marked with dark purple streaks and blotches at the 
undulated margins, especially towards the tip; dip  three-lobed, with the oblong 
obliquely acute lateral lobes closed over the column, convex, of a pretty palish 
mauve or lilac-rose, the front lobe beyond the contracted isthmus, which is deep 
purple, transversely reniform, an inch and a-half across, of a rich and very deep rosy 
purple, somewhat paler at the edge, which is distinctly undulated, Column included. 
CATTLEYA GUTTATA WruitAMstaNna, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, &.s., 
xxi, 70; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 185. 
, We have now to record a new Cattleya belonging to a section of which there 
are not many good varieties so thoroughly distinct from the species as the one 
we have here represented, one which is conspicuous not only for the beauty of its 
inflorescence, and the free manner of its growth, but also for its free-blooming qualities, 
as will be seen by a reference to our figure. The specimen from which the figure 
was prepared was a fine one, with several spikes bearing on each many flowers, 
and had bloomed equally well for two years in succession. It was named by Professor 
Reichenbach. Our drawing was taken from the above-named example, which is now 
growing in the rich and well-known collection of W. Lee, Esq., Leatherhead, to 
whom we sold the plant two years ago, and which represents the whole of the stock, 
with the exception of two smaller plants which we have in our possession. The three 
plants were purchased by us from Messrs. W. Thomson & Sons, of Clovenfords, in 
whose establishment Orchids are well cultivated and specially cared for. 
Cattleya guttata Williamsiana is an evergreen plant, like the typical form 
in its manner of growth, but more compact; it has stems a foot and a-half high, 
with two leaves of a dark green colour, one on each side. The flower spikes 
proceed from the top after the growth is completed. The sepals and petals are of 
a dull purple colour, faintly striped towards the margin, or in some cases spotted 
