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C.' INTRICATA, Bchb. f. — In habit this species comes nearest to C. inter- 

 media., the flowers beino; somewhat intermediate between Laelia elegans and 

 C. intermedia ; the sepals and petals are of the lightest whitish rose ; and the 

 lip resembles that of L. elegans picta, but that the side lobes are white, and 

 the blade of the central lobe, which has an abrupt stalk, is of the deepest purple. 

 It flowers in June and July. — Brazil. 



C. INTRICATA MACULATA, Bolfe.—A. charming thing according to Mr. Rolfe, 

 who thus describes it in the Gardeners' Chronicle, 1890, vii. p. 763 : "A few days 

 ago Mr. Malcolm Cook, of Kingston Hill, Surrey, brought to Kew a fine plant 

 which is evidently derived from the same parentage as C. intricata, though 

 somewhat different in colour. The sepals and petals are of a delicate rosy-blush 

 with many rosy-purple spots, in this respect recalling the variety Prinzii. The 

 side lobes of the lip are of a uniform delicate blush, and the front lobe deep 

 amethyst purple."- — Santa Catluirina, Brazil. 



C. KRAMERIANA, Rchb. f. — "This plant is supposed to be a natural hybrid 

 between C. intermedia and C.Forhesii, and was imported by Mr. Franz Kramer, 

 gardener to Herr Riicker-Jenisch, at Klein Fiottbeck, Germany, from Brazil. 

 Sepals and petals rather narrow, pale rose-coloured. The side laciniae are 

 semi-oblong, half heart shaped at the base and apex, with a rose-coloured 

 border, and the remainder, excepting the disooidal area, of the lightest purple. 

 Mid-lacinia semi-oblong, emarginate, toothed, wavy, with two discoidal areas 

 of the deepest mauve-purple ; the remaining part is white " (Reichenbach in 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 1888, 3rd series, iv. p. 323). — Brazil. 



C. LABIATA, Lindley. — One of the finest of the Cattleyas, a free-blooming 

 species, growing about twenty inches high, and flowering as it does late 

 in the autumn is a very valuable plant. The stems are club-shaped, mouo- 

 phyllous, and the flowers are large, often six or seven inches in diameter, 

 three or four on a spike, with broad rose-coloured sepals and petals, and a rich 

 niagenta-crimson lip. It blooms in October and November, and will continue 

 in perfection three or four weeks. The finest specimen we ever saw was in the 

 collection of the late R. Hanbury, Esq., The Poles, near Ware, the plant being 

 cultivated in a large tub, about two feet across. This superb kind was first 

 flowered by the late Mr. Cattley, of Barnet, in honour of whom the genus is 

 named. This species, though one of the first introduced, was up till quite 

 recently very rare, but now its habitat has been discovered large consignments 

 are frequently arriving. Several beautiful forms, such as Gaskelliana, Perci- 

 valiana, iranieri, &c., are sometimes referred to as sub-species of C. laMata, 

 but we have thought it more convenient to treat of them under their separate 

 names . — Brazi I . 



Fia.—Z,in(ll. Coll. Sot., t. 33 ; Bot. Iti-g., t. 1859 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3998 ; Loddiges, 

 Bot. Cab., t. 1956 : ITuuk. Bx. M., t. 157 ; Pa.et. PL Gard., i. t. 24 (vars.) ; Parton, Mag. 

 Bot., iv. 121, with tab. ; Id., vii. 73 (var. atropurpurea), with tab. ; Flore des Sorres, tt. 

 1893 — 4; Jennings, Orch., t. 15; Orchid Album, ii. t. 88; Knowles and Waste, Floral 

 Cab., t. 26; Gartenflora, t. 116 (var. superba) ; Hooh, \st Cent., t. 28; Gartenflura, 1888, 

 t. 1281 (var. magnilica) ; Beichenbachia. 2nd series, vol. ii. t. 49 ; Vcitcli's Man. Orcli. PL, 

 ii. p. 14 ; Lindcnia, iii. t. 112 ; viii. t. 370 (vars.); L' rchidophile, 1889, p. 81 ; Jour, of 

 Bort., xxlv., 1892, p. 17, f. 3 ; Bceae Hort. Beige, 1892, p. 97, t. 9. 



Syn. — C. labiafa autumnalis, C. Waro^ueana. 



