THE ORCHID REVIEW. 33 
CATTLEYA TRIAN4 AND ITS VARIETIES. 
We have again received a series of flowers of this very polymorphic 
Cattleya, and may attempt to point out their relationship to the numerous 
existing varieties, of which we gave a complete account at pp. 114—119 of 
our last volume. The majority have flowered out of recent importations, 
and may not be absolutely identical with the forms previously named, 
but at all events they closely resemble them, so far as the descriptions 
enable us to judge. It is hardly necessary to add that this Cattleya is one 
of the most useful plants flowering at this season, as it is represented in 
almost every collection, and frequently in numerous forms. 
Three forms from the collection of E. A. Bevers, Esq.. of Oxford, may 
first be mentioned. Var. tricolor has the front lobe of the lip crimson-purple, 
the disc yellow, and the rest of the flower white. Var. Io has the sepals and 
petals deep blush, with purplish-rose lip, which becomes decidedly paler at 
the undulate margin. Var. delicata is well known as having uniformly light 
blush flowers, except for the yellow disc. 
From the collection of John Powers, Esq., Swanswell, Coventry, comes 
a form responding to var. Backhouseana. The sepals and petals are light 
blush pink, and the latter have each a crimson-purple somewhat flamed 
blotch at the tip. The front of the lip is also crimson-purple. 
Three other fine forms have been sent from the collection of John S. 
Moss, Esq., Wintershill, Bishops Waltham. One has blush pink sepals 
and petals, with the whole of the front lobe of the lip and apex of the side 
lobes rich purple-crimson, the throat being of the usual pale colour, with 
the yellow disc much reduced. This we should refer to the variety fulgens, 
or very near it. Another has sepals and petals blush pink, the latter being 
Over 2} inches broad, and the front lobe of the lip rosy magenta, the disc 
being slightly veined. It may be referred to var. formosa. The third form 
has a remarkably open lip, even to the base, which gives additional 
Prominence to the disc, which is yellow with a whitish margin. The front 
of the lip is purple-crimson. If the open lip proves constant, we are un- 
certain which variety this can be referred to. = 
A splendid flower of the beautiful albino, C. T. alba, from the collection 
of R. Brooman White, Esq., of Arddarroch, has the petals two inches 
broad, and the lip equally well developed; the throat deep yellow, and all 
the rest of the flower of the purest white. ; F 
A rather small form, with blush segments and the lip very prettily 
coloured, comes from the collection of R. B. Macbean, Esq., of Lancaster. 
A zone of white occurs round the deep yellow disc and inside the narrow 
Pink margin of the side lobes, while the front lobe is purple-crimson. It is 
Probably not yet fully developed. 
