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It blooms during the summer months from the young growths, 

 the flowers being large, and nearly of the same colour as those 

 of C. Aclandia, but much darker, and they remain in per- 

 fection three or four weeks, if kept dry. 



C. ScMlleriana Regnelli. — This is sometimes considered 

 distinct from the preceding, but although well marked, it is 

 evidently very closely allied to that plant. The pseudobulbs 

 are usually about four or five inches high ; leaves in pairs, 

 sometimes, however, three are produced ; these are thick, 

 fleshy, and dark green ; flowers borne upon upright spikes, 

 from three to five in a cluster, measuring nearly four inches 

 in diameter ; sepals and petals somewhat oblong, spathulate, 

 green suffused with olive, and spotted with purple ; the front 

 lobe of the lip is large, rich amethyst shaded with purple, 

 and bordered with white ; the base yellow, streaked with 

 purple. It should be placed upon a block with a little 

 sphagnum moss, and suspended from the roof at the warmest 

 end of the Cattleya house, shaded from the direct rays of the 

 sun, and supplied with water liberally during the growing 

 season ; during the winter less heat will suffice, but it must 

 by no means be allowed to get dry. It is a rare plant, but a 

 very desirable one, as it blooms twice in the year, first in the 

 month of July, and again about the end of September or 

 beginning of October. It is beautifully rendered amongst 

 the superb illustrations in the second volume of Warner's 

 " Select Orchidaceous Plants." Native of Brazil. 



C. Sedeniana. — A beautiful garden hybrid, the parents being 

 C. crispa and C. granulosa ; it is tall in habit ; the flowers are 

 large and handsome ; the sepals and petals light rose, shaded 

 with green; the lip has a white fimbriated margin, centre 

 purple, with darker veins. A desirable plant. 



C. Skinnen. — A beautiful and free-flowering plant from 

 Guatemala, growing about a foot high, and blooming in 



