■154 ORCHIDrGROWER's MANUAL. 



C. BICOLOR MEASURESIANA, Williams.— This beautiful variety resembles 

 the type in its habit of growth and mode of flowering. The principal difference 

 lies in the present plant having a brbad white margin around the front of the 

 lip. Flowers in autumn. — Brazil, i, 



Fig. — Orchid Album, viii. t. 357.' ' 



C. BICOLOR WRIGLEYANA, Rchh. /.—A distinct variety, flowered by B. G. 

 Wrigley, Esq., Howick'House, Preston, in 1885; the sepals and petals are grey- 

 green and the' lip dark purple. — Bradl. .' 



C. BLESENSIS A very beautiful hybrid Cattleya, raised by M. Maron, 



gardener' to M. Darblay, Corbeil. It is the result of a cross between C pumila 

 and C. Loddigesii, and in habit of growth is intermediate between the two 

 parents ; it is named after Blois, a town in France. Thepseudobulbs are fusi- 

 form, from 5 to ,7 inches high, bearing two ovate-oblong leaves ; spike terminal, 

 bearing from two to four flowers, which measure 4 inches across. The sepals 

 and petals are of a very delicate shade of rosy-purple, the front, of the lip is of a 

 very rich deep magenta-purple, this colour being carried round the undulated 

 edges of the side lobes as far as .their point of contact, as well a:s far back into 

 the throat, which is white in the interior, having two pale sulphur-yellow eye- 

 like areas at the entrance. ^Garden hybrid." 



FlG.—Revue Mart,, 1893, p. 424' (plate). 



C. BLUNTII, Low. — This is truly a most chaste and beautiful Cattleya. It was 

 first flowered by the late John Day, Esq., Tottenham, and was named aftertho 

 collector, Mr. H. Blunt. This original plant was purchased by us from Mr.'Day, 

 and we have never since seen a Cattleya so chaste and beautiful belonging to the 

 same section, although several pale forms of C. Mendelii have been put forward 

 as being the same plant. In its stems and leaves, as well as, in the habit of 

 growth, it resembles C. Mendell'ii, and the flowers are also similar in' form to 

 those of that species. The sepals arid petals are pure white, arid the lip white, 

 with a yellow stain in the throat ; it flowers during the summer months. — 

 U.S. Colombia. 



C. BOISSIERI, Hort. — In this handsome species the leaves are of a short 

 broad oblong form, and theflowers have soft rosy-lilac sepals and petals, and a 

 broad lip with a beautiful curving yellow blotch extending half-way down and 

 nearly across it. — New Grenada. 



C. BOOTHIANA — Sec Cattleya lobata, 



C. BOWRINCIANA, Feiic/t.— This beautiful autumn-flowering Cattleya was 

 introduced in 1884 by Messrs. J. Yeitch & Sons, of Chelsea. It is closely allied 

 to C. Shinnerii, but we have found it a much freer grower and flowerer than 

 that species. It is stated to have been found on cliffs by the side of streams 

 near to waterfalls. In consequence, in its native habitat it receives a large 

 amount of moisture. In cultivation it has been found necessary to give this 

 plant an abundant supply of moisture, together with a free circulation of air. 

 The colour and shape of the flowers sxr.e similar to those of -C. Shinnerii. The 



