280 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
A beautiful seven-flowered raceme of the true Cattleya Harrisoniana, is 
sent from the collection of J. W. Arkle, Esq., West Derby, Liverpool. 
' The yellow corrugated crest and shape of the lip are unfailing marks of 
identification of this species. The sepals and petals are bright rose-purple. 
The variable Lzlio-cattleya x elegans is now very effective, and a 
fine form is sent, together with the preceding, which has the front lobe 
of the lip very broad, and, together with the tips of the side lobes, of an 
intense crimson purple, while the sepals and petals are uniformly light 
rose-purple, with a few minute spots, and the side lobes of the lip rather 
paler. A fine form from the collection of Reginald Young, Esq., Sefton 
Park, Liverpool, has the side lobes of the lip white, except for a trace 
of pink at the margin, the front lobe rounder and lighter in colour than the 
preceding, and the sepals and petals rather darker and unspotted. 
Messrs. James Veitch & Sons, Chelsea, send a spike of the brilliant 
Epilelia x Charlesworthii, from a plant raised at Langley, by Mr. Seden, 
a fine flower of Cattleya x Atalanta (Leopoldi @ x Warscewiczii 3), 
and flowers of the bright purple Dendrobium glomeratum, one of the 
prettiest of the Pedilonum group. 
CATASETUM LABIATUM. 
THIS species is a native of the Organ Mountains, Brazil, and a plant in 
the Royal Gardens, Kew, has now produced flowers of both s°xes, and a 
plate is given in the last number of the Icones Plantarum (t. 2617), together 
with the following note :— 
“The male of this species was described by Barbosa Rodrigues in 1881 
(Gen. and Sp. Orch. nov., ii. p. 218), since which time nothing further 
seems to have been known about it until last autumn. In September, a 
Catasetum which had been purchased at a sale produced a scape of female 
flowers, which, as often happens with this genus, could not be determined. 
A second scape soon followed from the opposite side of the same bulb, and 
when the flowers opened, in December, they proved to be males belonging 
to the above-named species. It is an ally of C. luridum, Lindl., and C. 
Hookeri, Lindl., but differs in the details of the lip. The flowers are 
green, except that in the males the lip is dull yellow internally. A dried 
male flower and sketch of a plant which flowered in the collection in April, 
1861, are preserved in the Herbarium, and clearly belong to this species, 
for they agree in structure and colour, but there is no note as to the origin 
of the plant. The present species is the twenty-third of which the female 
flowers have been recorded, but there is a greater number of which the sex 
is still unknown.—R. ALLEN ROLFE.” 
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