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CATTLEYA ALEXANDRAE t. up. et noure var. ELEGANS rozee. 
THE PRINCESS OF WALES’ CATTLEYA, ELEGANT VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, Daye 
Cattleya Alexandrae. Vide supra, p- 45. 
comparison of the accompanying plate with the preceding one will show 
how great is the range of variation on this remarkable Cattleya. The 
flowers of the variety elegans are larger than in the variety tenebrosa, and 
the colour of the sepals and petals closely resembles that of Laelio-Cattleya x ele- 
gans Turneri; the lip is also of a lighter shade than in the preceding, being bright 
rose-colour. It possesses one other marked character, though it is at present 
impossible to say if it is peculiar to it. In the other forms the side-lobes are but 
little longer than the column, which they enroll, and the apex is more or less 
acute. In the present form the side-lobes are distinctly longer than the column, 
and the tips are somewhat elongated, reflexed, and with an obtuse apex; the 
colour of the reflexed tips is also bright rose, closely resembling that of the front 
lobe. In other respects this handsome variety has all the characteristics of the 
species, except that the sepals and petals are rather less undulate than usual. 
We may now return to the history of the species. A first flower expanded in 
the houses of L’Horticutrure INTERNATIONALE on October 9" last, and about 
a fortnight later one expanded at Kew. This had the sepals and petals of a light 
green shade with a number of dark brown blotches, like some of the forms of 
C. guttata. During the first week in November it flowered in the collection 
of Saint Hirr Pearse, Esq., Brierly Hill, Staffordshire, as recorded by that 
gentleman’s gardener, Mr. C. Sims, in the Gardeners’ Chronicle for December 17% 
last, p. 730. It is said to be a good form of the species, confirming the 
indications originally given of it, and to be a very useful flower for a buttonhole, 
being worn as such at the recent Birmingham Show. A plant was also exhibited by 
Messrs LinpEn at a meeting of the OrcurpEEnne, of Brussels, on November 13 
last, and was unanimously awarded a First-class Diploma of Honour. This had 
the sepals and petals very much undulated and of a light coppery brown. The 
two varieties here figured flowered at a later date in the same collection. With 
such a considerable range of colour it is at present difficult to say which is the 
typical or more common form. 
An examination of the pollen shows it to be a typical Cattleya, and we 
may now proceed to indicate its affinities. 
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