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desirable plant, be it species, sub-species, or variety, and will be found useful 

 in all collections, flowering as it does during the early autumn months, and 

 being sweet-scented. It is named in honour of H. Gaskell, Esq., of Liverpool, a 

 great admirer of this class of plants, and who has a fine collection of them. — 

 Venezuela. 



Fig.— Revue Hort. Beige, 1887, p. 20.5 (plate); Gai-tnifiora, 1888, 1. 1274 (var. albens); 

 ReiehenbacMa, ii. t. 75 ; L Illustration HoHieole, xxxiii. t. 613.- 



C. GASKELLIANA PICTA, Bolfe.-^A. distinct and striking variety from the 

 collection of The Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain, M.P., Highbury, Birmingham. 

 Mr. Rolfe thus describes it in the Oardeners' Chronicle, 1890, viii., p. 352 : " The 

 sepals and petals have a ground colour of the usual lilac shade, but the former 

 are variegated and veined with light purple, while the latter have each a broad 

 and sharply-defined median band, with a few short radiating branches of the 

 same colour. The lip is normal except that there are one or two purple streaks 

 on the front lobe. It is very distinct from any other form I have seen, and is 

 quite analogous with C. Trianae striata recently figured in Lindenia, v. t. 232, 

 in the arrangement of the colouring." — Venezuela. 



C. GASKELLIANA ALBA, Williams. — This chaste variety has pure white 

 sepals and petals with a yellow stain in the throat. Flowers during June and 

 July. — Venezuela. 



Fig. — Orchid Allium, viii. t. 353. 



C. GIGAS, Linden et Andre. — This is undoubtedly one of the finest Caitleyas 

 known, its flowers being amongst the largest and the most beautifully coloured, 

 measuring seven to eight inches across. It has short fusiform stems, each 

 bearing one oblong leathery leaf, and it produces from four to eight flowers 

 on a peduncle. The flowers are very handsome, the sepals and petals pale 

 rose, and the lip large and broad, of a rich deep purple or violet in front, and 

 having a large yellow eye-like blotch on each side of the throat. The plant 

 is not so free-flowering as many Caitleyas. We have had the best success 

 with it when it was grown in a basket or pot suspended from the roof, as near 

 the light as possible, at the warm end of the Cattleya house. It flowers in 

 May, June, and July. — U.S. Oolomhia. 



Yia.—Ill. Hort., 3 ser., t. 178 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 144 ; Warner, Set. Oreli. PI., 

 iii. t. 7 ; Gard. Chron., U.S., xiv. 268, fig. 50 ; Id., xvii. 343, fig. 53 ; Lindenia, ii. t. 63. 



C. GIGAS BURFORDIENSIS, Sort.— An exceedingly handsome variety of 

 this grand Orchid, exhibited by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. The flowers 

 measure fully eight inches across ; the sepals and petals are of a beautiful rosy 

 lilac colour, and the lip is large and flat, three inches in diameter, and of a deep 

 amethyst colour, margined with dark rosy purple, the throat orange-coloured, and 

 the portion which encircles the column of a rich rosy purple. — TJ.S. Colombia. 



C. GIGAS FRANCONVILLENSIS, H. Williams.— A. most chaste and lovely 

 novelty, having the sepals and petals pure white. The lip is deep magenta- 

 purple broadly margined with pure white. This variety was flowered in July, 

 1893, by the Due de Massa, Chateau de Franconville, France, and is named by 

 his desire after his beautiful estate.— J7.B. Colomhia. 



