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green in colour. The first is shy to bloom, and its natural time for so doing is 
late autumn, a month or two after growth is completed, but the last is very 
free blooming, and does so immediately growth is completed. C. D. aurea 
will soon be in bloom, after which it should enjoy a good rest, and care 
should be taken to wholly remove the old flower sheath, or decay may set 
in there when the flower spike is cut. This decay is caused by the natural 
decay of the remaining portion of the spike, which cannot dry up owing to 
the sheath, and decay then descends to the bulb, when the leaf falls and 
the plant is greatly weakened. A judicious rest given now avoids possible 
trouble the following growing season, when the new partly-formed growths 
are apt to turn spotted and perish. Cattleyas superba and Eldorado will this 
month be at their best. Both are beautiful, but neither will withstand rest 
as applied to other Cattleyas. They should simply be kept drier in their 
tespective place, namely, the East Indian house. 
CATTLEYA RENE. 
UNDER the name of Cattleya René, M. Ed. André has described a supposed 
new Cattleya in the Revue Horticole for July 16th, which has flowered in the 
collection of M. O. Doin, of Paris, and the description is accompanied by a 
woodcut and a coloured plate (p- 332, fig. 141). It is said to have been im- 
ported direct from Brazil, and to be intermediate between C. Mossiz and an- 
other parent which it is difficult to identify, though its possessor thinks it was 
‘C. Lueddemanniana (speciosissima). C. gigas and C. aurea appear to have 
both been thought of, but the idea was abandoned on consideration. It is 
dedicated to Miss René André, and is described as most like C. Mossiz but 
different in some respects. It is a beautiful plant, but two or three diffi- 
culties suggest themselves about the record. C. Mossize and C. Lueddemann- 
iana are natives of Venezuela, and a natural hybrid between them, if such 
were known, would scarcely be likely to appear in Brazil. If the plant had 
been cultivated in Brazil its origin might be explained in some other way, 
but on this point there is no exidence. The figure certainly does not 
Tepresent a typical C. Mossiz, but that species is notoriously variable, and 
without seeing a flower one might ask whether it may not be an extreme 
form of this polymorphic plant. This does not quite get over the geographical 
difficulty, but on this point it may be said that no combination of known 
Brazilian species would yield such a plant. It is to be hoped that its 
history may be cleared up in the future, for we have already too many of 
these doubtful forms, which form such a stumbling block when one tries to 
clear up the history of a genus. ; R. A. R. 
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