Select Orchidaceous Plants as C. Regnelli ; but considering the wide range 
of shades and hues presented by the various forms of C. Schilleriana it would 
be unphilosophic and inconsistent to separate one form and to unite all the 
others, and the only course open, therefore, is to consider them all as varietal 
forms of C. Schilleriana. The plant now figured flowered in May, 1896, in the 
Victoria and Paradise Nurseries. 
Cattleya Schilleriana, so named by the late Professor Reichenbach in honour 
of Consul Schiller, who was instrumental in introducing so many new Orchids, is a 
handsome plant producing many fusiform pseudobulbs from a creeping rhizome, each 
pseudobulb bearing two coriaceous dark green leaves which are oblong-lanceolate 
acute, from three to four inches long. The flowers are large and handsome, 
measuring as much as six inches across. ‘The sepals and petals are yellowish, 
suffused with rose, and densely spotted and dotted with purple. The lip is large, 
the lateral lobes, which enclose the column, being white, veined and suffused with rosy 
purple the front lobe is ob-reniform, with crispulate edges, and of the richest amethyst- 
purple, veined with still deeper purple, while at the base is a patch of a golden 
yellow, veined with purple. C. Schilleriana is believed to be a natural 
hybrid between C. Aclandiae and C. guttata, both of which occur in Bahia, where 
C. Schilleriana is also supposed to have been collected. A comparison with the 
two species in question amply bears out this view, the front lobe of the lip, as 
well as the general habit of the plant, bearing a strong resemblance to that of 
C. Aclandiae, while all possible gradations of spotting in the sepals and petals have 
been observed, forming a graduated series connecting the two supposed parent 
species. 
To succeed well with this plant it should be placed in a basket with good 
fibrous peat and living sphagnum, to which a few lumps of charcoal should be 
added, or if preferred it may be placed upon a block with a little sphagnum. It 
should be suspended near the glass, at the warmest end of the Cattleya-house, but 
it will require to be shaded from the direct rays of the sun. During the growing 
season it should, of course, have a copious supply of water at the roots; in 
winter, however, it will do with much less, although care must be taken not to 
let the plants shrivel, as this would cause irreparable injury. 
