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Cattleija. 



this Cattleya is a most lovely Orchid. Flowering season, July 

 and August. Tropical South America. (B. M., t. 4083.) 



This species is not difficult to deal with when grown suspended 

 in baskets, where there are slightly warmer conditions than are 

 found in the Cattleya-house. 



C. TriariEei lyRchb. /.). — This is an extremely variable species. 

 In habit it resembles C. Mossiic, but the pseudo-bulbs are usually 

 thinner. The scape is many-flowered ; the sepals and petals are 

 rosy-lilac, varying to deep rose or white ; the lip is of the same 

 colour, stained at the base with yellon-, and having the front 

 lobe of a more or less rich purplish-violet colour. The blossoms 

 last a long time in full beauty, if not damaged by water from the 

 syringe. In some of the forms the flowers are as much as Sin. 

 across. Colombia, i860. Kew and other authorities regard this 

 as a variety of C. labiaia. Syn. C. guadricolor. (B. M., t. 5504.) 



There are many named varieties, some of them being of ex- 

 ceptional beauty ; one is : 



Van alba. — Flowers white, save for a blotch of purple on the lip. 



C. velutina {RM. /.). — Flowers fragrant ; sepals and petals 

 orange, spotted with purple ; lip orange and white, violet veined, 

 reflexed at margin ; stems slender, erect. Brazil. (W. O. A. i., 

 t. 26.) 



C. Walkeriana (Gardn.). — An elegant little plant, with short, 

 conical pseudo-bulbs, bearing each one leaf; the spike of two 

 flowers is developed on a separate flowering growth, which bears 

 no leaves, and withers after the flowers fade. Flowers 5in. 

 across, the sepals and petals overlapping and reflexed, rose- 

 coloured ; the lip has two broad side lobes, which also are rose- 

 coloured, the rounded, spreading blade being brilliant amethyst 

 outside, with radiating lines of a deeper colour, while the throat 

 is yellowish-white. The flowers are developed in winter, and 

 last in perfection about six weeks. This plant thrives best when 

 grown in shallow teak baskets, or fastened to a piece of soft 

 fern-stem. It likes plenty of light, shading only in very bright 

 weather, and an abundance of moisture always. It is rather a shy 

 flowerer. Brazil, 1839. Syn. C. bulbnsa. (B. R., 1847, t, 42.) 



Var. nobilior. — Flowers larger than in the type ; side lobes ot 

 lip broader. 



Var. Schrixderiana. — 'A\.tm% not thicker than a goose-quill ; 

 flowers of a bright rose-purple ; side lobes of lip small. 



C. Warnerii {T. iMoore). — Ont of the most beautiful of all 

 Cattleyas, much resembling C. labiata in habit, and referred to 

 that species as a variety. The scape is many-flowered, each 

 bloom measuring upwards of 6in. across ; the sepals and petals 



