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CATTLEYA GUTTATA. 
Flowers of a small green Cattleya with purple-brown spots have been 
received from three different sources, with request forname. They belong to 
the old Cattleya guttata, Lindl., and it is curious to note how its identity 
has been lost sight of, through the name having been transferred to other 
species. It was originally figured and described in 1831 (Bot. Reg., xvil., t. 
1406), from a plant which flowered in the garden of the Horticultural 
Society, and which had been sent from Brazil about four years previously, 
by the Right Hon. Robert Gordon. Lindley remarked that the spotting of 
the flower was remarkably different from anything previously seen in the 
genus. On December 6th, 1836, a fine specimen bearing a raceme of 
twenty-four flowers was exhibited at a meeting of the Horticultural Society, 
by Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aigburth, near Liverpool, to which a Silver 
Knightian Medal was awarded. It was figured in the Society’s Tvansacttons 
(ser. 2, ii. p. 177, t. 8), and Lindley described it as with one exception the 
most noble specimen of this natural order which he had had the good for- 
tune to observe. In 1848 it was again figured and described, under the name 
of C. sphenophora, by C. Morren (Ann. de Gand, iv., p. 17, t- 175), from 
plants in the establishment of M. Ambrose Verschaffelt, which had been 
sent from Santa Catherina by Devos. It appears to be rather widely 
diffused in the coast region of S. E. Brazil, having been met with in the 
provinces of Rio de Janeiro, Minas Geraes, Sao Paulo, and Santa Catherina, 
besides which it is reported to have been received among importations of 
C. amethystoglossa from Bahia, which we should like to see confirmed. It 
is a small-flowered species, the sepals and petals being 14 to 14 inches long. 
and the colour green spotted with purple-brown. The lip is very deeply 
three-lobed, the front lobe being rose-purple and narrowly stalked, and the 
large subacute side lobes white. It has been much confused with C. Leo- 
poldi and C. amethystoglossa, to which most of the described varieties (so- 
called) belong, but is easily distinguished by its much smaller size, the 
stalked front lobe of the lip, and from the last-named also in its very 
different colour. The plant figured in Lindenia as C. guttata, Lindl. (x., p. 
21, t. 441), is also incorrect, and belongs to C. Leopoldi. There are two 
varieties which, judging by the descriptions, belong to C. guttata, Lindl, 
namely :— 
Var. puncTULATA, Rchb. in Gard. Chron., 1880, ii., p» 358-—Sepals and 
petals light sulphur, with only very few small purple spots. It flowered in 
the collection of J. Day, Esq., at Tottenham. 
Var. MuNDA, Rchb. f., in Gard. Chron., 1888, ii., p- 378.—Sepals and 
petals green without any spots, ultimately becoming light yellow. It flowered 
with Messrs. Seeger & Tropp, of East Dulwich. 
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