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enabled us to become acquainted with the plant and its numerous variations, we 
have no need to alter in any way what we then said. The slight doubt which then 
existed has disappeared, and has become a certainty. It is known at the 
present time that the re-introduction of Cattleya labiata has been accompanied 
by a vast series of superior varieties which the partial importations of former 
times failed to reveal. 
It is to give a more complete idea of these variations that we publish 
to-day a new plate of Cattleya labiata (or Warocqueana). We have here figured 
four of the most beautiful and most showy varieties, of which we now give 
a summarised description. 
The variety flammea, which will be found at the right hand corner of the 
plate, is one of the first which flowered in October 1890. It was unanimously 
awarded a First-class Diploma of Honour at a meeting of the OrcHIDEENNE on 
October 12 th. of that year, and, two days later a First-class Certificate at a 
meeting of the Royal Horticultural Society of London. It is a great beauty, 
of a soft rose, which the English Journals so justly characterised by the term 
“ warm rose, ” with two superb orange-yellow blotches on the two sides of 
the throat. 
The variety alba, which will be found at the top of the plate, is wholly white, 
excepting the yellow disc of the lip; the picture of this flower was made after 
the plant which flowered in the celebrated collection of M. GrorcE Warocguk, 
at Mariemont. 
The variety gloriosa which will be found at the bottom of the plate near 
the middle, also the variety majestica, which figures on the left, were recently 
described in this work (vol. V, page 8), and we refrain from repeating the 
eulogiums which have been called forth on the occasion of their flowering in 
many fine collections in England and on the Continent. 
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