January, 1917] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 17 
\¢ CATTLEYA LAWRENCEANA IN AUSTRALIA. ¢| 
HE annexed figure represents a fine specimen of Cattleya Lawrenceana 
grown in the collection of E. Baxter Cox, Esq., of Adelaide, South 
Australia, and is reproduced from a photograph kindly sent through Messrs. 
Sander & Sons, St. Albans. It consists of two plants potted together, and 
Mr. Cox remarks that there are thirteen leads, sixty-five bulbs, and nine 
spikes, the two best with five flowers each. At the time the photograph 
was taken two spikes of four buds each had only just pushed through their 
sheaf. Owing to the compost having got into bad condition, the plant was 
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Fig. 4. CATTLEYA LAWRENCEANA. 
potted in midwinter, when new roots were pushing out, and just before the 
spikes started, this giving a check, so that four of the sheaths did not push 
their spikes at all, which reduced the quantity of bloom. C. Lawrenceana is 
anative of Mt. Roraima, in British Guiana, where it was discovered by Sir 
Robert Schomburgk over seventy years ago, though he mistook it for C. 
Mossiz, and it was only when re-discovered by Siedel some forty years later, 
when collecting for Messrs. Sander, that its distinctness was recognised. 
Soon afterwards it was described by Reichenbach, being dedicated to Sir 
Trevor Lawrence, President of the Royal Horticultural Society. It isa 
very handsome and floriferous species. 
