CATTLEYA TRIANAZ MASSANGEANA. 
[PLATE 242.] 
Native of New Grenada. 
Epiphytal. Stems oblong clavate, furrowed, the lower parts enveloped in e- 
coloured membranaceous sheaths. Leaves solitary, ligulate-oblong, narrowed to the 
shortly acute apex, coriaceous in texture, dark green, sometimes tinged with red. 
Scape or peduncle two-flowered, issuing from an oblong compressed, reddish cinnamon- 
coloured sheath at the base of the leaf and terminating the stem. Flowers of 
medium size, measuring about five inches across, curiously purpureo-striate ; sepals 
lanceolate acute, entire, spreading, longitudinally banded and striped with purplish 
magenta; petals ovate, the basal part plane, the front part much undulated, variously — 
striate in the direction of the venation (i.¢., flabellately) with deep rosy purple, or 
purplish magenta, the stripes more confluent towards the centre, forming a heavy 
line of colour enlivened by a white bar along the costa; lip two and a half 
inches long, the base closely rolled in, rosy purple, striped diagonally with deeper 
purple, the throat streaky orange flushed with pale rose, the rounded anterior lobe 
wavy, an inch and a half across, having a creamy bar passing up the centre 
through a series of veins of deep magenta which run outwards into closely set 
lines of the same colour reaching nearly to; the pale whitish, narrow, neatly 
undulated margin. Column enclosed. 
Cattleya Triana Massancreana, Leichenbach fil, MS. 
We have from time to time figured several varieties of Cattleya Triane, many 
of them being very brilliant and attractive in colour and superb in form. ‘There 
are no species of Cattleya among which greater variations of colour occur than in 
this now before us, nor any that are more useful for the winter decoration of our 
Orchid houses, The charming variety which we here figure, and which will be 
seen from the plate to be one of a most beautiful and distinct character, when 
first made known, was quite different from any other we had previously met 
with; it was first flowered by Monsieur D. Massange, Chdteau de Baillonville, 
Marche, Belgium, and is named in honour of that gentleman. Subsequently it was 
flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P., who was kind enough to send us 
flowers, which we found to be identical with those from M. Massange. It is a 
very rare plant, and may keep so, for we seldom find such a thoroughly marked 
variety as this even among the most variable species of Cattleya. 
Cattleya Triane Massangeana is an evergreen plant, which in its growth re- 
sembles the typical C. Triane. The sepals and petals are of a pale rose colour, 
beautifully blotched and barred with rose-purple, and the yellow-throated lip is 
striped with the same colours. The plant biooms during the winter season. 
