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CATTLEYA x HARDYANA wins var. STATTERIANA roxre. 
Mr. HARDY’S CATTLEYA, Mr. STATTER’S VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7. 
Cattleya X Hardyana. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 37. 
Var. Statteriana, Sepala et petala albidula. 
Var. Statteriana ROLFE supra. 
Cattleya XX Statteriana Fourn. of Hort., 1892, II, pp. 269, 277, fig. 38. — Gard. Chron., 1892, II, p. 378. 
wo handsome varieties of the variable Cattleya X Hardyana have 
already been figured in this work (Var. laversinensis, t. 305, and 
var. Gardeniana, t. 353), but the present superb form is still more 
distinct from the original type, and illustrates once more the wide range of 
variation to be met with among different individuals of the same natural hybrid. 
It is a plant from the collection of T. Srarrsr, Esq., Stand Hall, White- 
field, Manchester (gr. Mr. R. Jounson), which was exhibited at a meeting of 
the Royal Horticultural Society on September 20 th., 1892, under the name 
of Cattleya X Statteriana, on which occasion it was awarded a First-class Certi- 
ficate. It is a unique plant, with flowers of the size and shape of the typical 
C. X Hardyana, but remarkably different in colour. The sepals are dull ivory- 
white, with a faint yellow tinge, and the broad, recurved and elegantly undulated 
petals are also of an ivory-white shade. The lip is very large and handsome, 
with a very short tube; the ground colour rich nankeen yellow, and the front 
lobe rich velvety purple-crimson, with a rosy carmine feathering round the 
beautifully undulated margin. The lip is crimson at the base with yellow veining, 
and some purplish radiating lines extend along the disc, leaving the sides 
rich yellow. The outer sides of the tube are deeply suffused with carmine. 
It is a magnificent variety, in which the characters of C. Dowiana aurea 
come out more prominently than usual. 
It is pretty evident that in the Frontino district, where the two parent 
species, C. Dowiana aurea and C. Warscewiczii (C. gigas) grow together, they 
cross very readily, as there is scarcely on importation from this district in 
which some forms of C. X Hardyana do not appear, and as no two seem to 
come exactly alike, a wide range of variation is seen. The present handsome 
form is exceptionally distinct, but being derived from the same two species it 
must be considered as a variety of C. X Hardyana. 
Considering how valuable this hybrid is, and the interest attached to an 
