CATTLEYA TRIANE RUSSELLIANA. 
[PLATE 219. ] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Stems clavate oblong, furrowed, clothed in the lower parts with pale 
membranaceous sheaths. Leaves leathery, ligulate-oblong obtuse, emarginate, solitary, 
pale green. Scape two to three-flowered, issuing from an oblong compressed terminal 
sheath. lowers very large, six inches in expansion, richly coloured; sepals lanceolate, 
entire, plane, recurved at the tips, three and a half inches in length, of a’ pale 
rosy blush ; petals similar in colour, very broadly ovate, bluntish, frilled and denticu- 
late at the edge, three inches long and upwards of two inches broad, spreading ; 
lip almost three inches long, stout in texture, the base entire and appressed so as to 
close up over the column and to form an oblique-mouthed funnel, the margin being 
continued so as to meet over the throat, the anterior and upper edge entirely of an 
intense crimson-magenta extending from the margin backwards in a wedge-shaped form to 
within the tube, behind which, reaching to the base of the column, is a two-lobed area of 
unspotted orange-yellow. Column enclosed, clavate, whitish, rosy-purple at the basal 
margins, 
prays Tr1anz Russevtrana, Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 5 ed. 134; 
6 ed. 205. , 
There is no doubt that the Cattleya figured in the accompanying plate is one 
of the finest of the varieties of the Triane group. Its flowers are of a most brilliant 
colour, and of fine form and firm substance; in truth it possesses every good quality a 
flower can have, so much so that it is a difficult matter to do justice to it in the space 3 
at our command, the spikes of the flowers being so large. This Cattleya was, many 
years ago, in the collection of the late Provost Russell, of Falkirk, N.B., after whom 
_ named it, and it was then described in the Orchid-Grower’s Manual. Since that 
sme it has passed into the grand collection of Baron Schréder, The Dell, Staines, 
< has bloomed for several years, and is now in a very vigorous condition, 
having borne as many as sixteen flowers at the time when our drawing was taken 
ost year, It is still a rare plant, there being only a few others known, and they 
 {nnoots from the original specimen, 
Cattleya, Triane Russelliana is an evergreen plant, with the usual club-shaped stems 
— ee Sreen foliage; it is of good habit, and free in the production of its 
ae ax aie uowets, which grow several together on the spike. The sepals are 
of two ad half inches long, and upwards of an inch broad ; the petals are upwards 
lip is 5 a eos wavy thts the edge and recurved, white tinged with rose; the 
and the Nie " across, with the edge beautifully frilled, the throat bright orange, 
obe intense crimson-magenta, the colour being well carried back 
