a2 THE ORCHID REVIEW. [AUGUST, 19T0. 
CATTLEYA WARSCEWICZII ALBA. 
THE annexed figure represents a very beautiful albino Cattleya which, 
under the name of Cattleya gigas alba, was awarded a Gold Medal at the 
Horticultural Show held at Boston, Mass., U.S.A., on March 26th last. It 
is reproduced from a photograp 
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1 sent by the exhibitors, Messrs. Lager and 
Hurrell, Summit, New Jersey, who remark that the plant was ‘‘ imported in 
a batch of the species last summer, and that the flowers are absolutely pure 
white, with a suffusion of greenish yellow in the throat of the lip.” Albinos 
of Cattleya Warscewiczii are very rare, if indeed a true one has previously 
Fig. 14. CATTLEYA WARSCEWICZII ALBA. 
appeared. The variety rochellensis is nearly but not quite an albino, as will 
be seen by the following note. It was recorded by 
Reichenbach in 1888, 
under 
me name of ‘C. labiata Warscewiczii rochellensis, n. var., Or, 
shorter, C. rochellensis’’ (Gard. Chron., 1888 
flowered with Messrs. 
described it as 5 
ct 
es 
ii. p. 533), the plant having 
Siebrecht and Wadley, of New York. The author 
snow white, with an exceedingly light, evanescent purplish 
hue on the front of the lip. It passed into the collection of the late Mr. F. L. 
Ames, and was figured in Reichenbachia (ser. t, ii. p. 81, t. 85), and although 
we do not detect any trace of purple in the figure, the presence of a tinge of 
