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flowers more freely, and its spikes are larger. We exhibited a fine plant of this 

 variety with seven spikes of blossom at our great International Horticultural 

 Exhibition in 1866.— Brazil. 



Fig. — Lindl. Gard. Ckron., 1848, 403, with woodcut ; Xcnia Orclc, i. t. 91 ; Vciteh's 

 Man. Orch. PL, ii. p. 74 ; Gard. Ckron., 3 ser., x., 1891, p. 577, f, 78. . 



Syn. — C. JBoothiana ; Laelia Boothiana ; L.lohata. 



C. LODDIGESII, Lindley. — A free-flowering and desirable species, which 

 grows a foot or more in height, and has terete stems, a pair of ovate-oblong 

 leaves, and medium-sized flowers, in which the sepals and petals are pale rose- 

 colour tinged with lilac, and the lip light rose marked with yellow. It blooms 

 in August amd September, producing three or four flowers on a spike, 

 remaining long in perfection. — Brazil ; Buenos Ayres. 



FiG.—Loddiges, Bot. Cab., t. 337 ; Lindley, Coll. Bot., t. 37 ; Hooli, Ex. FL, t. 186 ; 

 Ri'ichcnbachia, 2nd series, vol. i. t. 40 ; Gard. Ckron., 3 eer., v., 1889, p. 109, f. 13. 



C LODDIGESII MACULATA, Williams. — A very pretty spotted variety, 

 having minute deep purple spots over the entire surface of the flower ; very 

 distinct. — Brazil. 



C. LUCIENIANA, Bchb.f. — The following description is taken from the Gar- 

 deners' Chronicle, 1886, ii. p. 456, where the late Prof. Eeichenbach first described 

 it: — "A lovely Cattleya, with the bulbs and leaves of G. Harrisoniana. a,nA a, 

 flower much like that of G. Isabellae, Hchh., but much darker and richer in colour. 

 The rather narrow sepals and petals are of a fine brown, most beautifully 

 enlivened by a wash of purple. The lip. is trifid ; its side-laciniae are blunt 

 triangular, the mid-lacinia ' cuneate,' cordate, emarginate, of the richest purple, 

 the disk between the side-laciniae having red keels. The side-lacinine are pale 

 yellow, with thick reddish veins. Column white, with purple lines on side, and 

 numerous small points of purple. The front side of the column is whitish yellow 

 at the base, with numerous purple lines around the border of the fovea. There 

 can be no doubt its parents arc G. Forhesii and guttata or granulosa. It is 

 dedicated with pleasure to Lucien Linden, who kindly sent it to me." — Native 

 country not stated. 



C. LUTEOLA, Lindl. — A distinct but by no means showy species, producing 

 flowers about two inches in diameter. Sepals and petals pale yellow, lip whitish 

 at the anterior portion, side lobes striped with rosy purple. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Xenia Orok., 1. t. 83 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5032. 



Syn. — C.flavlda, C. Mcyerl, C. modi'sta, C. npideiidroldes, C. Solfordi. 



C. MANGLESII, J{c7i.6. /. — A Veitchian hybrid, the result of a cross between 

 G. speciosissima and G. Loddigesii. The flower is larger and brighter than in 

 G. Loddigesii, and the lip is beautifully waved and toothed on the margin, white 

 with a yellow line on the disk, and two small pale purple blotches, light purple 

 on the margin. — Garden hybrid. 



C MARDELLII, Seden. — This fine hybrid has stems about four and a half 

 inches long, terminated by two leaves. The sepals and petals are bright 



