260 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [NovempeR, 1916. 
kes | ABNORMAL CATTLEYAS. | ety 
BNORMAL forms of Orchids frequently appear in our collections, and 
# the question of their constancy or otherwise is often a matter of 
interest. Cattleya labiata seems rather subject to this abnormal develop- 
ment, and the annexed figure represents a curious form that flowered some 
years ago in the collection of the late Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton Park, 
Liverpool. The dorsal sepal is broad and petal-like, and the petals have a 
purple blotch near the apex, and a smaller one on the lateral sepals. A 
Fig. 46. CATTLEYA LABIATA YOUNGIANA. 
still more curious form is preserved at Kew. In one flower ot the raceme 
there are three sepals, three petals, anda straight column with three anthers, 
each with the normal number of pollinia; while in the other there are three 
sepals and three lips (one not quite perfect), the column being much 
reduced and without an anther. In the first the side lobes of the lip have 
reverted to an ancestral condition, becoming anthers, while in the second 
the single anther has become petaloid, assuming the character of the side 
lobes of the lip. 
Some freaks are constant from year to year, and may even reproduce 
themselves by seed, on which points some interesting information is furnished 
