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CATTLEYA DOWIANA sarem. var. STATTERIANA uorr. 
CAPTAIN DOW'S CATTLEYA, Mr STATTER’S VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7. 
Cattleya Dowiana. Pseudobulbi validi, clavati, sulcati, monophylli. Folia lineari-oblonga, obtusa. Spatha obtusa, 
pedunculo subaequalis. Flores speciosissimi. Sepala lanceolata, acuta, plana, lutea. Petala elliptico-oblonga, obtusa, 
margine undulata, lutea. Labellium maximum, obscure trilobum, oblongum, emarginatum , crispum, atropurpureum, 
venis aureis pulcherrime ornatum. Columna clavata, labello triplo breviora. 
Cattleya Dowiana BATE. in Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 922. — Bot. Mag., t. 5618. — Fl. des Serres, t. 1709. — 
Belg. Hort., XIX, p. 193, p- 13. — Ill. Hort., XIV, t. 525. — Revue Hort., 1869, p. 31, cum ic. — JENN. Orch., 
t. 33. — Dre Puypt Orch., p. 253, t. 7. — Warn. Sel. Orch., ser. 2, t. 27. 
Cattleya labiata var. Dowiana VertcH Man. Orch., pt. II, pp. 15, 16, cum xyl. 
Var. aurea T. Moore in Warn. & WILL. Orch. Album, I, t. 84. — Reichenbachia, ser. 1, I, p. 11, t. 5. 
Cattleya aurea LINDEN in Ill. Hort., n. s., XXX, p. 125, t. 493. — Lindenia, I, p. 61, t. 28. 
attleya Dowiana was originally discovered in Costa Rica by Warscewicz 
about the year 1850. Plants were sent to Messrs Low & C°, of Clapton, 
but being in bad condition they eventually died. The dried specimens 
were equally unfortunate, as the parcel containing them, sent by Messrs Low to 
Prof. Retcuensacn, failed to reach its destination. It was not re-discovered 
until 1865, when Mr Arce, a native naturalist engaged in collecting butterflies 
and other natural history objects for Mr Ure Sxinner, met with it. He sent plants 
to England, through Captain Dow, which were acquired by Messrs James 
VerrcH & Sons, of Chelsea, one of which flowered for the first time in the 
autumn of 1865. It was described in the following year by Mr Bareman, who 
dedicated it to Captain Dow, in recognition of the assistance rendered by him to 
botanical collectors and to men of science generally. In Costa Rica it is said to 
be limited to a small area on the slopes of the great central mountain range 
facing the Pacific Ocean. 
The variety aurea was discovered by Gustav WaLuIs, in 1868, near Fron- 
tino, in the state of Antioquia, on the western Cordillera of New Granada, while 
collecting for M. Linpen. It chiefly differs from the type in the yellow markings 
of the lip being more copious and irregularly distributed over the whole surface. 
It is also a freer grower. Rozzi records its habitat as near the river Cauca, 
at a considerable distance above its confluence with the Magdalena, a locality 
upwards of 600 miles distant from its Costa Rican habitat. 
In this locality it is much more common than in Costa Rica, and also more 
variable, both in the colour of the sepals and petals, and in the amount of 
yellow on the lip. The variety Statteriana, here figured, is one of the most 
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