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on longish pedicels in a lax raceme. The ground colour is yellowish white, 
inclining to light yellow on the dorsal sepal and petals. The basal half of the 
lateral sepals bears about five maroon-purple stripes, the remainder, together 
with the dorsal sepal and petals, being covered with maroon-purple spots. The 
fleshy lip is dull maroon-purple in colour. 
It is a botanical Orchid, and from its Bornean habitat will require to be 
cultivated in the warm house. 
R. A. Roire. 
CATTLEYA ALEXANDRAE has flowered for the first time in Europe, on 
October 8th., in the houses of L’Horricutture INTERNATIONALE; and although 
it is not yet possible to judge it by its first nearly abortive flowering, yet it 
ig now certain that the species is very variable. One of the plants has produced 
flowers which may be compared to those of Cattleya Leopoldi, except that the 
rose colour of the lip is of a paler shade, and the flower stem is also considerably 
longer. It will be interesting to establish the exact classification, from a botanical 
point of view, of this new Cattleya, when the imported plants are completely 
established in cultivation. 
Our colleague Mr Rotre informs us that a flower on one of the Kew 
plants expanded on October 23rd.; also that this plant has produced one of 
the axillary growths recently mentioned by us in the Fournal des Orchidées, 
which phenomenon may also be observed in the collection of F. Wican, Esq., 
of Clare Lawn, East Sheen. 
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