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CATTLEYA x HARDYANA xcs. r. var. GARDENIANA nore. 
Mr HARDY’S CATTLEYA, GARDEN’S VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, feb 9h 
Cattleya X Hardyana. Pseudobulbi clavato-fusiformi, subcompressi, sulcati, monophylli. Folia lineari-oblonga, 
obtusa, emarginata. Racemi 2-4 flori. Flores speciosissimi. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, acuta, apice recurva. Petala 
elliptico-ovata, obtusa, undulata. Labellum integrum, elliptico-oblongum, apice bilobum, valde undulatum. Columna 
clavata. 
Cattleya >< Hardyana Witui1ams Orch, Gr. Man., ed. 6, p. 633. — Gard. Chron., 1885, pt. II, p. 206. — 
Warn. & WILL. Orch. Album, V, t. 231. — RoLre in Gard. Chron., 1889, pt. II, p. 560. 
C. X Massaiana WitiiaMs Orchid Album, VU, t. 302. 
early a year ago, a very handsome variety of Cattleya x Hardyana was 
figured and described in this work, under the name of C. < Hardyana 
var. Laversinensis (supra vol. Il, p. 37, t. 305), and now we have another 
variation to record. It differs from the preceding one in the absence of the 
white marbling of the sepals and petals, and from both it and the original 
C. X Hardyana in the absence of the peculiar veining on either side of the disc 
of the lip, in which respect it approaches more nearly to C. gigas, one of its 
two parents. 
As already pointed out, there is a district on the western Cordillera of New 
Granada, near Frontino, where C. gigas and C. Dowiana aurea grow together, 
and it was in an importation of these species that C. x Hardyana first came to 
light. From the outset, its intermediate character was too obvious to be over- 
looked, and thus was demonstrated the fact that the two species must have been 
crossed together by the insects on which they are dependent for fertilisation. 
That this is no rare occurrence is now clearly established, for since the original 
form appeared a considerable number of others have come to light, and the 
plant is now represented in many collections. 
Like nearly all hybrids where the parents are at all distinct, a great range 
of variation is seen, some of them showing a near approach to one parent, while 
in others just the reverse takes place. Some forms of C. x Hardyana are among 
the most beautiful Cattleyas in existence, while others possess little value from 
the decorative standpoint. In these inferior forms the sepals and petals are of a 
very pale yellow, veined with light pink of a very washed-out shade, the two 
colours appearing to have neutralised each other. But when this marbling stands 
out clear and distinct, and the colours are well contrasted, the effect is superb. 
In the lip an equally wide range of variation is seen, but there is never the 
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