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“ By these different characters and the exquisite delicacy of its colours, 
this pretty plant forms with its congeners a most charming contrast. 
“ At its first flowering I observed that the number of pollinia developed 
were six, of which four were a little larger than those of Cattleya Loddigesu, but 
the two others not nearly so large. Since that time, this peculiarity has been 
regularly repeated, and a minute examination has enabled me to detect the 
remaining two abortive ones of which I could not detect the slightest trace at 
the first time of flowering. 
“ Although the fact is only mentioned as a matter of purely scientific 
interest, it may be worthy of notice. ” 
M. Buev has also informed us, in a letter, that five seedlings only were 
raised. Of this number, four were of the variety delicata, while “ the fifth is 
particularly distinguished by the less elongated form of the lip, and particularly 
by the very intense reddish violet colour of the front part of the lip. ” 
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support, after which the two ends should be tied round the shoot. The tie is 
then firmly fixed, and cannot slip along the support. 
Sometimes, when the growths swell and become changed into bulbs, the 
space left by the raffia is not large enough and they may become compressed. 
The ligatures should be examined from time to time, to see that they are not 
injuring the living parts. 
(fournal des Orchidées.) 
