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CATTLEYA VELUTINA rcup. F. 
THE VELVETY CATTLEYA. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., I, p. 7. 
Cattleya velutina, Pseudobulbi elongati, teretes, graciles, diphylli, 30-46 cm. longi. Folia oblonga v. lanceolato- 
oblonga, obtusa, 10-12 poll. longa. Spatha lineari-oblonga, subacuta, 2 1/2-3 poll. longa. Racemus 2-4 florus. Sepala 
lanceolato-oblonga, acuta, apice recurva, posticum 6-7 cm. longum, lateralia falcata, 5 cm. longa. Petala falcata, 
elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, basi attenuata. Labellum panduratum 5 cm, longum, lobis lateralibus parvis semiorbicularibus, 
intermedio orbiculari v. reniformi-orbiculari obtuso v. emarginato undulato, disco omnino velutino. Columna arcuata, 
2 cm. longa. 
Cattleya velutina Rous. F. in Gard. Chron., 1870, p. 140 et p. 1373. — Ip., 1872, p. 1259, fig. 288, 289. — 
Warn. & WILL. Orchid Album, I, t. 26. — VerrcH Man. Orch., Il, p. 87. — RoLre in Gard. Chron., 1889, i, 
p- 802 et ii, p. 4o1. 
Var, Lietzei RecuL in Gartenflora, XXXVII, p. 49, t. 1265. 
his handsome Cattleya was originally described in 1870, from a plant 
which flowered in the collection of JoszpH Broome, Esq., of Didsbury, 
4 3 near Manchester. It was said to have been received in a collection 
obtained through a collector whose head-quarters were at Rio. It was described 
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a very interesting and intricate novelty. The pollen apparatus is quite 
genuine, as in all Epidendrums. Hence, if it is a mule, it is at least from genuine 
Cattleyoid parents. If we were entitled to offer some hypothesis, we might suggest 
that it may have descended from Cattleya Walkeriana Garon. (bulbosa LinbL.) and 
from C. Schilleriana Rous. r. ” The flowers were also said to be so fragrant as to 
perfume the whole house in which they were grown. The sepals and petals were 
described as olive-green with some purplish spots in rows, and the lip yellow, 
rosy in front, with dark purplish veins, and wholly velvety. 
Soon afterwards a much finer variety appeared, in the collection of Consul 
ScHILLER, at Hamburg, with the sepals and petals light orange, covered with 
many purplish spots and streaks. Rercuznspacu then remarked that if the plant 
was a mule, Cattleya bicolor might be one of the parents. “ We would advise all 
the possessors of Cattleya bicolor, ” he added, “ and especially of recently 
introduced plants, not to dispose of their specimens before they flower, since it 
would be very tantalising to ascertain at a later period that a plant supposed to 
be one of that old species had proved to belong to such a first rate beauty as the 
present. ” 
In 1873 another plant appeared, in the collection of E. G. Wrictey, Esq., 
of Broad Oaks, Bury, Lancashire, which RricHEnBacu said was quite like the 
original form. 
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