THE ORCHID REVIEW. 241 
CATTLEYA MENDELII ABNORMAL. 
SEVERAL curious abnormal forms of Cattleya Mendelii have been 
described in these pages, but the one shown in the accompanying figure is 
both striking in appearance and very beautiful. The two petals are com- 
pletely transformed into lips, which agree with the normal one both in 
shape andcolour. The flower has just appeared in the collection of O. O. 
Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, and has been kindly forwarded for 
inspection, together with the excellent photograph by Miss Wrigley here 
reproduced. As to the shape and arrangement of the perianth there is 
nothing to add, as the illustration speaks for itself; the colour also is 
about typical, being darker in front of the lips than here shown, 
Fic. 14. CATTLEYA MENDELII ABNORMAL, 
Owing to the well-known fact that purple does not reproduce itself 
truly in a photograph. The dark line shown in one of the lateral 
Sepals is an orange band, which also is an abnormal character. 
The column is quite straight, scarcely an inch long, and sharply three- 
angled to the apex, with three imperfect stigmas, but without any trace of 
the anther. In fact the column seems to be made up entirely of the three 
Pistils, and the anther to have divided itself between the two petals, com- 
pletely changing their character, in the same way that two staminodes 
become united to the median petal to form the norm ullip. The ‘ores os 
imported by Messrs. John Cowan & Co., in March, 1898, and is now 
