248 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
CATTLEYA x HARDYANA. 
THE season of this beautiful Cattleya has again arrived, and its brilliant 
flowers will shortly brighten up many a collection, for many plants have 
appeared during recent years among importations of its parents, C. Dowiana 
aurea and C. Warscewiczii. Artificially raised seedlings have also flowered, 
and from this source the stock of plants is likely to be augmented for some 
time to come, as the cross has been made in several collections. An 
unexpected amount of variation has been found to exist between the. 
Fic. 38. CATTLEYA xX HaARDYANA. 
different plants, some of the forms approaching one or the other parent to 
such an extent as to have been sometimes considered as varieties of them 
rather than of the hybrid C. x Hardyana. Particularly has this been the 
case among forms having white sepals and petals, of which several are 
known, and such forms may be expected in due time among artificially 
raised seedlings. The history of the plant is given in our fourth volume- 
The form figured is from the collection of W. M: Appleton, Esq., of 
Weston-super-Mare, and is fairly typical. 
