CATTLEYA MOSSIAE MONDII. 
[PuaTE 528. | 
Native of La Guayra. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs oblong fusiform, ribbed, four inches or more in height, 
invested with the remains of greyish sheathing scales, monophyllous. Leaves 
leathery oblong, obtuse, keeled beneath, six to eight inches long. Scape terminal, 
three to five-flowered. Flowers very large, six inches or more in diameter ; 
sepals oblong - lanceolate, acute, entire, spreading, recurved towards the apex, 
purplish rose; petals elliptic ovate, shortly clawed, the margins entire at the base, 
irregularly crispate towards the apex, of the same colour as_ the _ sepals; 
lip broadly obovate, incurved at the base where it folds over and_ encloses the 
column, the exterior surface of the part being of the same colour as the sepals 
and petals, the anterior expanded portion broadly obovate obtuse emarginate, 
crenulate and crispate at the margin, the ground colour of a delicate shade of 
yellow veined with rich orange- -yellow, and shading off into white at the margins, 
while at the anterior half occurs a median streak of magenta- purple ; the throat 
has the ground colour purplish rose, veined with rich magenta - purple. Column 
clavate, semi-terete, included. 
Carrtrya Mosstar, Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 3669. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
‘~ kx, 1883, page 630, fig. 89; Jd., xxvi, 1886; page 401, fig. 81. 
Williams, Orchid Album, VL» plate 246. Hooker, First Century of Orchidaceous 
Plants, plate 29. Revue de UHorticulture Belge, 1893, page 200, with plate. 
Linden, Les Orchidées Exotiques, page 497, fig. 76. Williams, Orchid Grower's 
Manual, 7th edition, page 176, with woodcut. 
Catt LABIATA Mossiar, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1840, plate 58. 
Veitch’s | Mivaad of Orchidaceous Plants, part ii, page 22, with plate 
Eprmenprum Lapratum Mosstaz, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Xenia Orchidacea, ii., 
page 30. Walper’s Annales Botanices Systematicae, vi, page 314. 
CarrteyaA Mosstar Monpu, Fraser, Gardening World, xii., 1896, page 621. 
Cattleya Mossiae is incontestably one of the most variable species of Cattleya, 
and one of the most prolific in distinct varietal forms. If we follow some authorities 
in regarding C. Mossiae itself only as a variety of C. Jabiata, the range of variation 
becomes still wider. Whatever view, however, botanists may ultimately take in this 
respect, for garden purposes it will be more convenient to consider the two series 
of forms as constituting two distinct species, and this attitude we have maintained 
throughout this work, as well as in the Orchid Growers Manual, where no less 
than thirty-nine varieties of C. Mossiae are enumerated. Since the publication of 
the seventh edition of that work many more forms have been named and _ figured, 
