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CATTLEYA AMETHYSTOGLOSSA ump. et acus. r. var. ROSEA roure. 
THE AMETHYST-LIPPED CATTLEYA, ROSE-COLOURED VARIETY. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 7. 
Cattleya amethystoglossa. Pseudobulbi elati, teretes, superne sensim incrassati, diphylli. Folia elliptico-oblonga 
v. ovato-oblonga, obtusa, coriacea. Spatha lineari-oblonga, obtusa. Racemus erectus, validus, multiflorus. Bracteae 
ovatae, acutae, rigidae, brevissimae. Flores speciosi. Sepala alba, roseo-purpureo maculata, posticum lineari-oblongum, 
obtusum, laterallia paullo breviora, subfalcata. Petala alba, roseo-purpureo maculata, obovato-oblonga, obtusa. La- 
bellum profunde trilobum, lobis lateralibus oblongis obtusis circa columnam convolutis apice reflexis, intermedio late 
obcordato-bilobo roseo-violaceo, disco corrugato et papilloso. Columna clavata, arcuata. 
Cattleya amethystoglossa LIND. et RCHB. F. ex WARN. Sel. Orch., ser. I, t. 2. — Reus. F. in Gard. Chron., 
1866, p. 315 (pro parte), cum xyl. — Warn. in Gard. Chron., 1866, p. 365. — Ill. Hort., XIV, t. 538. — Bot. 
Mag., t. 5683. — Revue Hort., 1869, p. 210, cum ic. 
Cattleya guttata var. Prinzii Rowe. F. in Bonplandia, IV (1856), p. 327. — Verrcu Man. Orch., II, p.'375 
cum xyl. — RoLFE in Gard. Chron., 1889, I, p. 619. 
Epidendrum elatius var. Prinzii Rous. ¥. Xen. Orch., II, p. 33, et p. 173, t. 172, fig. x. 
Cattleya guttata var. Keteleerii HouLLET in Revue Hort., 1875, p. 350, cum ic. 
Var. rosea. Sepalis petalisque roseo-suffusis et purpureo maculatis. 
Var. rosea ROLFE supra. — C, amethystoglossa RoL¥E in Reichenbachia, ser. 2, vol. I, p. 101, t. 47. 
attleya amethystoglossa is a handsome winter-flowering species whose 
history is a very much confused, as will be seen by the above-cited 
B synonymy. It was originally described by Reicnensacu, in 1854, under 
the name of Cattleya guttata var. Prinz, from a plant which flowered in the 
collection of Herr Retcuenuer, at Berlin. Nothing further was then stated about 
its origin, though Reicuensacn afterwards stated that the plant had been sent 
from Brazil by Herr Prinz, after whom it was named. 
In 1862 it was figured in Warner’s Select Orchidaceous Plants, under the 
name of Cattleya amethystoglossa, from a plant which first bloomed in the 
collection of the late F. Coventry, Esq., of Shirley, Southampton, whence it 
passed into Mr. Warner’s collection, at Broomfield. In 1866 REICHENBACH wrote 
in the Gardeners’ Chronicle that Cattleya amethystoglossa was introduced long ago 
by M. Linpen, and that there were some specimens of it scattered about on 
the Continent : but in England the species had not been well understood, as 
Mr. R. Warner had unfortunately represented the splendid white and amethyst 
Catileya guttata var. Prinzii in lieu of the true plant. To this Mr. Warner, replied 
that the plant was sent to England many years before, by M. Linpen, under the 
name of Cattleya amethystoglossa, and that the drawing was made from the 
original plant, and therefore must be authentic. 
The plant to which Retcuensacu referred was Cattleya porphyroglossa Linn. 
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