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PL. DXLIV. 
CATTLEYA MOSSIAE noox. VARIETATES. 
1. JOHN SCHULZ’S VARIETY. 2. LUCIENNE’S VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, 1, p. 15. 
Cattleya Mossiae. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 85. 
rea) remember that hardly fifteen years ago, an amateur who possessed 
fifteen or twenty different Cattleya Mossiae in his hot house, showed 
ol them to me with pride has being a fine collection of this species. His 
plants were of three distinct typical forms, the first of the darkest coloration, 
the second with larger flowers than is usual, and the third represented by a 
form in which the yellow veins of the throat covered both sides of the lip. 
Passing over some unique varieties which figure in a small number of famous 
collections, this small group did indeed represent a good selection of the 
different forms of C. Mossiae introduced into cultivation. 
Since that time, however, the horticultural art has vastly improved, and 
the collection we admired in 1880, would seem very incomplete and poor at 
the present time. Owing to importation Orchidiologists have been able to make 
choice of superior varieties, so distinct, that at certain Exhibitions, for instance 
at those of the ORCHIDEENNE, we may see collections of thirty or forty C. Mossiae 
without two forms being alike. 
The publisher of the Lindenia wishing his subscribers to know all the new 
discoveries made, has already figured over a dozen different varieties, five of 
which have appeared within the last three years. These varieties were chosen 
amongst the most remarkable; several more might still be produced before 
giving a general idea of the extent of the variation of C. Mossiae. To confirm 
this, two varieties are figured on the annexed plate, which have flowered recently 
in the hot houses of Messrs. Lucren LinvEN et C°, at Moortebeek, and which 
are finer and more distinct than their predecessors. 
The Fohn Schulz variety, dedicated to the distinguished Russian amateur, 
whose fine Orchids I have already quoted, in remembrance of his visit to Moor- 
tebeek, is remarquable for the size of its flowers and brilliancy of coloration. 
It may be considered as the largest in size hitherto known. The petals of unusual 
length and breadth, of very fine habit, are pale rose veined with lilac on both 
sides of the median nerve; the sepals are of the same colour. The lip is much 
undulated and fringed, the front lobe is red, irregularly veined with dark purple- 
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