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CATTLEYA LAWRENCEANA VAR. MARY-REGINA. 
WE have much pleasure in giving an illustration of the chaste and beautiful 
Cattleya Lawrenceana var. Mary-Regina, which received a_ First-class 
Certificate at the recent Temple Show, as recorded at page 184. A photo- 
graph, natural size, has been kindly sent by Messrs. Charlesworth & Co., 
the exhibitors, which is here reduced by one-third. The flower is pure 
white, with a faint tinge of pink on the front of the lip. In other respects 
it conforms to the type. The species seems very little subject to variation, 
for when at Meirelbeke two years ago M. Pauwels pointed out one 
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CATTLEYA LAWRENCEANA VAR. MARY-REGINA. 
lilac variety as the only one seen among his large importations (O.K., 
xvi. p. 163). And the described varieties are but few. The first was con- 
color (Gard. Chron., 1886, 1. p. 535), which appeared with Mr. F. A. 
Philbrick, of Oldfield, Bickley, and was described by Reichenbach as having 
lilac-purple flowers with the lip concolorous. Messrs. Veitch added two 
others in 1887 (Man. Orch., il. p. 41), namely rosea-superba and oculata: 
The first appeared in the collection of Baron Schroder, and is described as 
having larger flowers, of a delicate rosy purple striated with white, and the 
sepals paler than the petals and lip, the disc of which is white. The origin 
of the variety oculata is not stated, but it is said to have the central area of 
