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-CATTLEYA WARNERI. 
[Prate 521.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs cylindrical or fusiform, furrowed longitudinally, mostly 
covered by a greyish sheath, from three to three and a-half inches long, 
monophyllous. Leaves broadly ligulate, coriaceous, six to eight inches long, three 
inches wide. Scapes produced from the top of the pseudobulbs, bearing from three 
to five large handsome flowers, measuring fully six inches across. Sepals lanceolate, 
entire, with recurved margins of a beautiful magenta-rose; petals very large an 
road, measuring two and a-half inches across, ovate, denticulate, crispulate near the 
apex, of a beautiful magenta-rose with slight veining of a darker shade; lip three- 
lobed, very large, measuring three inches in length, the mid lobe being two inches 
wide ; lateral lobes appressed, rosy purple, throat yellow veined with orange-yellow, 
bordered with white; mid lobe of a rich purple-magenta, the margin strongly 
undulated, and of a rosy purple shade, which is continued round the anterior edges 
of the side lobes, 
CartteYA Warnert, Moore, M.S. in Warner’s Select Orchidaceous Plants, i., 
t. 8. Floral Magazine, t. 516. Gardeners’ Chronicle, new series, xx., 1883, p. 369, 
f. 57. Revue Horticole Belge, 1888, p. 177. Linden, Les Orchidées Exotiques, 
p. 633. Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 193. 
CATTLEYA LaBiaTA Waryert, Reichenbachia, ii, t. 95.  Veitch’s Manual of 
Orchidaceous Plants, part iL, p. 27. 
This is without doubt one of the handsomest of the summer-flowering types of 
Cattleya. In habit of growth it differs but little from the autumn-flowering form of 
Cattleya labiata, except that the leaves are broader, and the flowers are produced 
from single sheaths instead of double, as in the case of the type. It was first flowered 
by the late Mr. Robert Warner in 1860, and was by him exhibited at the Royal 
Botanic Society’s exhibition in Regent's Park, when a Silver Medal was awarded to 
it. It produces its flowers during June and July, and on that account is valuable 
as an exhibition plant, its finely coloured blossoms contrasting well with C. Mossiae 
and its varieties. ; 
Cattleya Warneri grows to a height of about sixteen inches, the leaves being 
about three inches across, of a thick leathery texture, dark green in colour. The flowers 
are large and showy, as a glance at our plate will show; they are sometimes 
produced with as many as five on a spike, but this is an unusual number. It 
should be grown in a pot or a basket suspended from the roof of the house, in 
* compost of peat and sphagnum ‘moss. It requires a good amount of heat during 
the growing season, which js in the winter and spring months, the flowers are 
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