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sepals and petals, which are white just tinted with pink, the lip white 'at the 

 base, where it is closely folded round the column, the expanded portion lobed 

 and crenate at the edges, deep purplish magenta in the front, half the throat 

 being heavily stained with orange. Its flowers are produced during the late 

 summer and early autumn months. — Bio Negro'. 

 FiGi.— Flore des Serves, t. 1826 ; Lindenia, vi. t. 262. 



C. ELDORADO ALBA. — See Catileya Eldokado viugixalis. 



C. ELDORADO ORNATA, Bchh. /.—This- new variety, which flowered in 

 1883 with W. Lee, Esq., late of Downside, Leatherhead, has very dark purple 

 sepals and petals, and a large dark purp^e'bloteh covering the end of each pfetal ; 

 the lip is as in the type; it flowers during the autumn months. — Rio Negro. 



C. ELDORADO SPLENDENS, Linden. — This is a very beautiful and superior 

 form of the type, with very large flowers. The sepals and petals are clear 

 rose, the latter broad and serrated at the edges, the lip large, emarginate, 

 having a rich deep orange throat, succeeded by a circle of white, which is again 

 followed by rich violet-purple, extending to the front and round the whole 

 margins, where it is finely saw-toothed. The front portion of the lip has some- 

 what of a quadrate outline. It is a most desirable plant, and should be in every 

 collection. — Rio Negro. 



'Pia.—IUust. Hort., 3 ser., t. 7 ; Orehid Album, vii. t. 310. 



C. ELDORADO VIRGINALIS, Williams.— This is a white variety of C. Eldo- 

 rado, and is a very chaste and most desirable plant. The sepals and petals ar? 

 snow-white ; the lip and column of the same colour ; the throat bright orange. 

 This plant flowers during August and September, a season when Orchid flowers 

 are becoming scarce ; and its blossoms are deliciously sweet-scented. — The 

 Amazon country. 



Fig. — III. Hort, 3 ser., t. 257 ; Reichenhachia, ii. t. 93 ; Lindenia, iii.t. 101 ; Orchid 

 .Album, ix. t. 388. 



Syn. — C. Eldorado alba, C. crocata, C. Wallisii, C. rirginalii. 



C. ELDORADO VIRGINALIS ROSEA, WilliamB.— This desirable variety is 

 like the preceding one in every respect, saving that it bears a distinct rosy 

 purple blotch on the front of the anterior portion of the lip ; it blooms during 

 August and September.— T/ie Amazon country. 



C. EPIDENDROIDES.— See Cattleya luteola.. 



C. EXONIENSIS, Rchb.f. — A splendid garden hybrid, obtained in the nursery 

 of Messrs. Veitch and Sons, and for the raising of which we are indebted to the 

 late Mr. Dominy. It had for its parents C. Mossiae (seed parent) and Laelia pur- 

 purata, and like them has clavate nionophyllous stems and gorgeous flowers. 

 The sepals and petals are in shape like those of C. Mossiae, and tinted with 

 delicate blush ; the lip is much enlarged in front, undulated, and of an intense 

 rich velvety rose-purple with a white margin, the throat deep orange or golden 

 yellow, with two purplish veins in the central part of the base, and the broad 



