318 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [OcroBER, 1914. 
S| GATTILEYA:GUTTAT A. 
HE original Cattleya guttata, Lindl., is not often found in cultivation 
now, being replaced by the finer C. Leopoldii, and it was interesting 
to see a good plant of it bearing a spike of fourteen flowers in the group 
exhibited by Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. at the R.H.S. meeting held on 
September 22nd last. The species was described and figured by Lindley in 
1831 (Bo!. Reg., t. 1406), the author remarking: ‘‘ This beautiful species 
was sent to the Horticultural Society from Brazil by the Right Hon. 
Robert Gordon. The spotting of the flower is remarkably different from 
anything that has yet been seen in the genus.” A remarkably fine specimen 
of it, bearing no fewer than 24 flowers on a single raceme, was exhibited at 
a meeting of the Society on December 6th, 1836, by Richard Harrison, 
Esq., Aigburth, near Liverpool, and was awarded a Silver Knightian Medal. 
This particular plant was figured in the Transactions of the Society in 1837 
(ser. 2, ll, p. 177, t. 8). It had been grown by Mr. W. Perrin, ina compost 
of peat earth and potsherds in equal quantities, and had not been potted 
for three years. Lindley remarked that with the exception of an Aérides 
cornutum in the possession of Messrs. Loddiges it was the most noble 
specimen of this natural order of plants that it had been his good fortune to 
observe. In 1848 the species was again described by Ch. Morren, under 
the name of C. sphenophora (Amn. de Gand., iv. t. 175). This is said to 
have been sent from Santa Catherina by Fr. Devos. 
A plant of C. guttata flowered with Mr. John Day in 1870 (Orch. Drai-» 
v. t. 25), and Mr. Day remarked: “‘I bought this at Mr. R. Bullen’s Sale 
at Stevens’ in November, 1875, as C. Leopoldii, imported by him from Rio 
by Mr. Henry Blunt. It turns out to be all old C. guttata, which it so 
happens I have never drawn before, though the page has been reserved for 
it for 15 years. It is a very pretty thing, but there are now S0 many 
splendid Cattleyas that it meets with unmerited contempt. This flower ® 
one of 20 flowers, forming a dense head of bloom, which is the finest I have 
ever seen.”’ 
EPIDENDRUM PORPAX.—A very interesting little Epidendrum, received 
from Mr. C. H. Lankester, Cachi, Costa Rica, is now flowering at Kew, 
which has been identified from description with Epidendrum porpas, Rehb. 
_f., a species described as long ago as 1855 (Bonplandia, ii. P- 220), a * 
native of Nicaragua, where it was collected on Mount Pantasma, Segovlt 
River, by Oersted. It is a dwarf plant, closely allied to E. Matthews” 
Lindl., and bears numerous short stems, about two inches high, with oblong 
