CATTLEYA. ■ HJ) 



spotted with yellow, outside tinged with yellow ; petals same size and form, 

 but more spotted with yellow; lip irregular in form, rich yellow, thickly 

 spotted with crimson. — British Guiana. 



Fia.—Scrtum Orch., t. 41 ; Lindenia, vi. t. 269. 



C. SCURRA, Rolib. f. — This curious plant is well worthy of cultivation, 

 owing to its compactness of habit, and the elegance and perfume of its flowers. 

 The pseudobulbs are about an inch and a half high, ovate acute, becoming much 

 wrinkled, the leaves about six inches long, oblong-lanceolate, and of a lively 

 green, and the flowers five or more together in a drooping raceme. The flowers 

 are of a pale straw colour or waxy white with green veins, and they emit a most 

 grateful perfume, which has been compared to that of lemons or roses. The 

 lip is very peculiar in structure ; it is trifid, the side lobes erect with bent 

 borders, rhomboid and denticulate, the middle lobe with a short broad linear 

 stalk, expanded into a sub-reniform blade with crisped and toothletted edges. — 

 Demerara ; Panama. ■ 



Fia.—Gard. Chroii., N.S., vii. 304, figs. 50, 51. 



C. TIGRINUM, Uchh. f. — A pretty species with white flowers spotted with 

 rosy purple, inflorescence pendent, many-flowered; first flowered by Mr. Dorey, 

 gardener to W. Williams, Esq., Sugnall Hall, Staffs. — Brazil. , 



Fig. — Lindenia, i. t. 27. , 



C. TRIDENTATUM. — See Catasetu-M maceocakpum. 



CATTLEYA, Lindhy. 

 (^Tribe Epidendreae, suMrihe Laelieae.) 

 The species of this popular genus rank among our finest Orchids ', 

 they are general favourites, and. we are glad to find that they are now 

 being extensively introduced and cultivated, and that new species and 

 varieties are being obtained through the unflinching energy of our 

 hybridisers and collectors. The pseudobulbs vary considerably from the 

 small ovate pseudobulbs of G. citrina to the elongated and thickened 

 club-shaped stems of C. labiata, Trianae, Mossiae, and Mendellii, and the 

 dark massive evergreen foliage when in a healthy condition, together 

 with the compact habit of growth, renders the plants peculiarly attrac- 

 tive. Some of the sorts have only a single leaf at the top of each stem, 

 while others have two, and in some instances three. The flowers are 

 large, elegant in form, and scarcely surpassed in this brilliant family for 

 their sparkling richness and depth of colour, the most frequent tints of 

 which are violet, rose, crimson, magenta, white, yellow, mauve, and 

 purple, with their intermediate shades. The flower scape, which is 



