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when very strong with as many as twenty-seven flowers. The sepals and petals 

 are suffused with light rose and spotted with rich magenta purple, while the 

 lip is deep magenta purple. It blooms in March, April and May, and will last 

 five weeks in perfection. There have been a good many plants of this beautiful 

 species imported during the last few years, and many varieties have bloomed; 

 ind.eed, it is seldom that two plants flower exactly alike. See also C. guttata 

 Frinzii. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Wanwr. Sel. Orch. PI., i. t. 2 ; Bot. Mag., t. ."5683 ; 111. Ilort.. r. ."IIS; B'r. 

 JIoH.. 1869, 212, with tab. ; Meiclu-nhachia ii., scrivs i. t. 47 ; Xenia Ore.., ii. t. 172 ; 

 VOrvhidopltih: 1892, p. 369 ; The Ganhn. 1893, xliii. p. 54. 



SVN. — Epidcndmm elatiur Prinzll, Rchb.f. 



C. AMETHYSTOGLOSSA SULPHUREA, Hort.—A very pretty variety of this 

 fine Orchid, resembling in every respect the plant figured in Mr. Warner's book 

 above quoted as C. amethystoglossa, except that the ground colour of the flower 

 is of a pure lemon colour, the spotting being as in the type ; the lip is broad, 

 and of a rich cream colour. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., 1866, 315, with fig. (.') 



C. AUREA.— See Cattleta Dowi.vna aurea. 



C. AUTUMNALIS — See Cattleya Bowkingiana. 



C. BALLANTINIANA, Rchh. f.—K hybrid between C. gigas and C. Trianae, 

 raised by Messrs. Sander and Co., and named after Mr. Ballantine, gardener to 

 Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder, of " The Dell," Staines. The sepals and petals 

 are of a delicate rose colour ; the lip is margined with the same colour at the 

 sides, while the basal margin is a deep purple, the inner portion of the lip is 

 pure white and the throat yellow. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Scic'icnbachia, ii. t. 91. 



C. BATALINI, Saiider et KrciirJin. — This remarkable species is described 

 as intermediate between C. Aclandiae, C. hicolor, and O. Schilleriana. The 

 pseudobulbs are 15 inches long and ^ inch thick. Flowers pale purple from 

 2 to 25 inches across, petals deeply coloured. The lateral lobes of the lip are 

 whitish suffused with rose, while the naid-lobe is violet with a white border. 

 It was exhibited at the Drill Hall on July 12th, 1892, by Messrs. Sander and 

 Co. Named in honour of Professor Batalin, the Director of the Imperial 

 Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. — Brazil. 



C. BICOLOR, Lindley. — A beautiful and free-flowering Orchid of vigorous 

 growth, with slender terete striated stems eighteen inches to two feet high, 

 diphyllous, the leaves oblong-lanceolate, and the flowers on a terminal peduncle. 

 The sepals and petals are pale green, with a lurid coppery brown tinge, the 

 oblong-cuneate lip rich rose purple, remarkable from the absence of the side 

 lobes, the exposed column being pink. It blooms in September, producing as 

 many as eight or ten flowers on a spike, and remaining a long time in perfection. 

 There were two beautiful varieties of this plant in the collection of the late 

 T. Dawson, Esq., of Meadow Bank. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4909 ; Diet, of Gard., 281, fig. 384 ; Serfiivi OrcJi., t. 5 ; Lem. 

 Jard.JPl.,t.379; J««ra. r/ //<)rt.,xiv. 1887, p. 177, f. 30 ; Orchid AliMm,vn.t.dl8 ; Lin- 

 dciiia, vii. t. 392 ; VOrcMdophdv, 1891, p. 17,. 



