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CATTLEYA x HARDYANA RCHB, F. var. LINDENI HORT. 
Mr. G. HARDY’S CATTLEYA, Mr. LINDEN’S VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15, 
Cattleya X Hardyana. Vide Lindenia, VU, Pp. 47. 
Var. Lindeni Horvt., infra. 
q@ his magnificent new variety of the celebrated hybrid, of which we have 
) already figured several beautiful forms, flowered at the autumn of 1894 
Liem aAMOngst some importations received at L’HorticuLturE INTERNATIONALE, 
Pare Léopold, Brussels. 
One other form recently figured in our work, C. x Hardyana Luciani, had 
also made its appearance out of the same lot. 
The new variety is more specially remarkable for its large and broad 
flowers, and the splendid purple colour of its lip, charmingly shaded with golden 
yellow at the base of this organ and on the sides of the disc. It is more in the 
way of C. gigas, especially, in the shape of the lip and the less velvety purple 
blotch of the front lobe, whilst in some other varieties, like Statteriana for an 
example, the characters of C. aurea predominate; the influence of the latter 
parent is, however, perfectly evident in the variety Lindeni. 
_ Concerning the habitat of the plant, it is well known that both species 
flower in the same region, and these superb hybrids are the result of natural 
fertilisation, but the relations of these two species though evident, is purely 
speculative. 
Cette magnifique variété nouvelle de I’hybride si justement réputé, dont 
nous avons déja publié plusieurs belles formes, a fleuri 4 l’automne de 1894 
parmi des importations regues 4 L’HorticutTure INTERNATIONALE; c’est dans le 
méme lot d’importations que s’était révélé le C. x Hardyana Luciani, figuré 
récemment. 
La nouvelle variété est particuliérement remarquable par l’ampleur et les 
dimensions considérables de ses fleurs et par le superbe coloris pourpré de 
son labelle, délicatement nuancé de jaune clair 4 la base du labelle et sur les 
cétés de la gorge. Elle se rapproche plus particuliérement du C. Gigas, notam- 
ment par la forme du labelle et le rouge un peu moins pourpré du lobe antérieur, 
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