46 
£2, 
foe } 
22. 
These growths are represented in the accompanying plates. There is reason, 
however, to suspect that they are not normal productions, but a result of 
the severe check the plants received at a period when they were about to 
commence their growth. Through their journey to Europe, growth was retarded 
beyond the normal season, and these axillary productions may well be due 
to a reaction. There is the more reason to suspect this, because the pheno- 
menon is not met with in the pseudobulbs produced in their native habitat. 
As the young normal growths became only partially matured, the scapes, 
in a few instances, began to push, from which it is evident that this Cattleya 
flowers on the young growths, and when properly established, it will prove 
to be an autumn bloomer. But the severe check which the plants had received 
was soon apparent, for instead of ten or twelve flowers, as in the dried speci- 
mens, only one to three matured themselves, the remaining buds turning yellow 
and shrivelling at an early stage. Those which expanded have quite confirmed © 
the collector’s indications of great variability, as no two have proved exactly 
alike, and the two extremes are illustrated in the two accompaying plates. 
The variety tenebrosa is, as its name implies a very dark form, the segments 
being of a deep dusky brown, and the lip rose-purple, very much like that of 
Cattleya Leopoldi. It chiefly departs from the type in the intensity of the colo- 
ration of the sepals and petals. 
R. A. Ror. 
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