CATTLEYA. . 17X 



C. LABIATA PESCATOREI, Bprt—K very beautiful variety, -of free-bloom- 

 ing habit, with light green foliage, and pale rose-coloured flowers, with a rich 

 crimson lip. This is distinct from the old form, of G. labiata,. and blooms 

 during the autumn, continuing three weeks in perfection. — Brazil. 



C. LABIATA PICTA, Lindley. — A very charming variety, with large flowers, 

 which have the sepals and petals lilac-rose blotched with crimson, and the lip 

 of a very rich deep crimson, white, on the margin on the upper side, where the 

 lateral lobes meet ; the petals are remarkably broad.— Sro.;i7. 



Fig.— Pfljf . Fl. Gard., i. t. 21, fig. 2. 



C. LABIATA PURPUREA, H. Williams.— A. very high-coloured variety, with 

 intense purple-crimson sepals and petals, lip same colour with a darker centre, 

 throat deep yellow; this plant is in the collection of M. le Comte de Germiny, 

 •Chateau de Gouville, France. — Brazil. 



C. LABIATA WARNERII— See C. Waenekii. 



C. LAWRENCEANA CONCOLOR, Ec7i6. /.—A beautiful and distinct variety 

 with uniform light purple flowers, the lip having no dark colour in the anterior 

 portion. It was flowered by F. A. Philbrick, Esq., of Bickley Park. — Roraima, 

 British Guiana. 



C. LAWRENCEANA, Bchb. f. — A distinct and free-flowering species, dis- 

 covered in 1842 by Sir Robert Schomburgk, and re-introduced in 1884 by Messrs. 

 F. Sander and Co. Pseudobulbs 12 to 15 inches high, compressed and furrowed, 

 generally of a reddish brown colour, rarely green. Leaves solitary, scape ter- 

 minal, erect, issuing from a brownish purple sheath, many flowered. Flowers 

 four to five inches across, similar in form to G. Skinnerii, fine rosy purple. Lip 

 bright rosy purple, throat white. Flowers in March and April. This species 

 should be a valuable plant for summer exhibitions, as we have on many occasions 

 by retarding been able to keep it as late as the end of May and beginning of 

 June. — Roraima, British Guiana. 



Fig.— Zindeiiia, i. t. 44 ; Jldchenicrehia, i. t. 12 ; J!i-vue Hort. Bdtje, 1886, p. 121 : 

 Jonrn. of Sort., xii., 1886, p. 295, f. 52 ; xv., 1887, p. 451, f. 55 (var. rosea superba) ; 

 Orchid Album, viii. t. 342 ; Bot. Mag., t. 7133. 



C. LEMONIANA, Lindley. — A pretty species in the way of G. Mossiae, but 

 distinct in its growth, the leaves being shorter. It grows about a foot high, and 

 has light green foliage. The flowers are pale pink, with j-ellow in the centre of 

 the lip, and are produced during the summer, lasting for three or four weeks in 

 bloom. Reichenbach includes it under C. labiata. — Bra::il. 



Fig.— Hot. Reg., 18i6, t. 35. 



C. LOBATA, Lindley. — A charming species, very much like G. crispa in 

 growth, but shorter in both stem and leaf. The flowers are of an uniform deep 

 rich rose. It is a sh3--flowering plant, producing its blossoms in May and June, 

 and continuing about three weeks in perfection.- This plant, which one &;eldom 

 meets with at exhibitions on account of its shy-flowering properties, is 

 exceptionally often seen in greafc'perfection at the Manchester shows, so famed 

 for their Orchidic displays. There is a variety called C. lobata superba, which 



