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PL. DXXX-DXXXI. 
CATTLEYA TRIANAE up. VARIETATES. 
1. FESTIVA 3. DULCIS 5. SUPERBA 7. SPLENDENS 
2. REGALIS 4. AMPLISSIMA 6. ARDENS 8. MAJESTICA 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15. 
Cattleya Trianae. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 63. 
attleya Trianae is deservedly one of the most popular species of the 
genus. It blooms at a time when flowers are rarest and in most request; 
it offers all the qualities of effect and duration which are appreciated 
by amateurs and florists in this wonderful Cattleya genus, so highly privileged. 
If some species exist, more favoured perhaps in the size of the flowers, none 
offer so much charm and resource on account of the variability ; and amateurs 
who wish to have a collection of the most remarkable of the Cattleya genus in 
their hot-houses, can easily assemble thirty C. Tvianae without having two 
alike. When these plants are in flower, it is extremely interesting to compare 
the different forms one with the other and such a comparison always procures a 
renewal of pleasure to the connoisseur. 
We can form some idea of the number of these variations by examining the 
double annexed plate, and by comparing it to the seven other varieties prece- 
dently figured in the Lindenia. Already, in volume V of this work, we have 
devoted a whole publication to four superior varieties which may be considered 
exceptional; those we have grouped to-day are chosen amongst the most remar- 
kable which have appeared this spring, at the meetings of the Orcu1DEENNE. They 
certainly are not absolutely uncommon; but each one may serve as type for 
a whole group, and taken together, allow us to form a just idea of the value 
of this superb species and of the qualities peculiar to it. . 
We have published in our 5 volume a complete account of C. Tvianae, 
discovered by M. LinpeEN in 1842, in the Cundinamarca district, Columbia; we 
will not repeat it here. Let us only remark that notwithstanding the extreme 
variability of the tint of the flowers, it has, like the other Cattleya of the Jabiata 
group, a distinction inherent to it which cultivators can not mistake. Even when 
not in flower, the shape and the dimensions of the pseudo-bulbs and leaves, 
the disposal of the petals, their short, full shape, the lip not so long as that of 
C. Warocqueana, of C. Mossiae, and of C. Mendeli, etc.; lastly the yellow blotch, 
more or less orange coloured of the disk and its clear separation from the red 
blotch of the anterior lobe. Cattleya Trianae, to which Lindley gave the name 
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