CATTLEYA GLORIOSA AND CATTLEYA MAJESTICA 
These are varieties of C. labiata coming from localities. sufficiently distant 
from the places where our ordinary forms of Cattleya Warocqueana have been 
collected, that is to say, C. Jabiata of the famous * Swainson’s hunting ground. ” 
C. gloriosa is distinguished by its much clearer leaves and almost yellow 
pseudobulbs, and of its flowers the sepals and petals are white or whitish, 
and a lip speckled with a purple blotch of greater or less size. I saw it in flower 
at the end of October last, in the superb collection of M. Treveran, of Bordeaux, 
an admirable specimen which bore ten flowers. That plant came out of our sale, 
of the 30 th. October 1891, at Messrs PROTHEROE and Morris’s Rooms. I have 
received flowers of the same variety from several amateurs, notably from 
M. Canuzac, likewise of Bordeaux. We have had some beautiful specimens of 
it in flower at L’HorricutturE INTERNATIONALE, where they have been admired 
by numerous visitors ; and lastly a magnificent variety flowered with Dr Capart, 
of Brussels, in November last. Cattleya Gloriosa corresponds entirely with the 
description which The Gardening World of the 12 th. of November last (p. 169) 
gives of the C. labiata Sanderae. They appear to me to be synonymous. 
C. majestica has reddish and very long leaves and pseudobulbs, “ titanic 
leaves and titanic pseudobulbs. ” The flowers are large and highly coloured. 
M. G. Warocqut exhibited some beautiful specimens of it at the October 
meeting of L’OrcHIDEENNE at Brussels, where they caused a sensation. C. majestica 
is no longer an unknown plant in England. The Gardening World of the 17 th. 
December last (p. 248) gives a description of it, and says that it has flowered 
with Messrs pr Roruscuitp, at Gunnersbury Park, and proves to be a variety 
of particular merit. Finally an example of C. /. majestica in flower was put up 
at our sale of the 30 th. October 1891, at Messrs ProrHeroE and Morris’s 
Rooms, and was sold for 11 guineas (see Gardening World, November 7 th. 1891, 
p. 152). — Behold again what the Gardeners’ Chronicle of November the 7 th., 
1891, p. 554, says: “ The plants of a supposed new form of C. labiata, named 
majestica, looked good, and the best pieces fetched from five to eleven guineas. ” 
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