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CATTLEYA MOSSIAE nook. var. AMOENA Hort. 
Mrs. MOSS’S CATTLEYA, CHARMING VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, I, p. 15. 
Cattleya Mossiae. Vide Lindenia, IV, p. 85. 
Var. amoena Hort., infra. 
he series of forms of Cattleya Mossiae, of which we have already figured 
several good examples, is beautifully completed by the present variety, 
and it may be seen, at a general glance, how various and infinite 
ae the Orchids, and especially the species of the marvellous genus Cattleya, 
display, so as to satisfy every request, and to delight the most particular amateurs. 
The variety amoena flowered in 1894 amongst some importations received at 
L’HorticuLTurRE INTERNATIONALE, Parc Léopold, Brussels. It is distinguished 
by the very pale, and on places white colouring of the front lobe of the lip, 
which is only stained with rosy mauve on the margin and along the midrib. 
The disk bears a fine, bright yellow blotch, covered with rosy brown, elegantly 
_ radiating streaks. The sepals and petals are of a soft rose. 
If we consider the wide range of variations which are to be found in one 
species as to the colour only, while the shape of the blossoms and the vegetative 
characters remain evidently unchanged, it must be understood that the products of 
artificial hybridization of two given species are likely to present some very great 
_ differences between themselves, and while the differences we allude to may be 
encountered yet between the products raised out of one and the same seed-pod, 
they must of course be much more apparent between the offsprings derived from 
two such varieties as, for example, C. M. Wambekeana and C. M. amoena. 
La présente variété compléte admirablement la série des formes du Cattleya 
Mossiae, dont nous avons déja figuré plusieurs modéles choisis, et montre com- 
bien les Orchidées, et spécialement les espéces de ce merveilleux genre Cattleya, 
sont richement douées pour satisfaire tous les gotits et charmer les amateurs les 
plus difficiles. 
Le C. Mossiae amoena, qui a fleuri en 1894 parmi des importations de L’Hor- 
TICULTURE INTERNATIONALE, se distingue par le coloris trés pale, en partie blanc, 
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