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handsome form, which appeared in the collection of His Majesty the King 
of the Belgians, at Laeken, in 1894. It is near var. Statteriana, but the 
yellow areas at the sides of the lip are much smaller, the crimson being 
more developed on the front, sides, and disc. C. x Leopold II. (Lindenia, 
t. 479) is synonymous. 
Var. Luctant (Lindenia, t. 449) app h WwW iczii in shape 
and colour, but has a little yellow veining in the throat, the yellow in the 
middle extending across the lip, and the front lobe a little marbled with 
white. It appeared at L’Horticulture Internationale, Brussels. 
Var. LinpENI (Lindenia, t. 478) has the same origin as the preceding. 
It has a dark crimson-purple lip, which colour extends round the margin of 
the side lobes, and the usual veining on the disc. The sepals and petals 
are more like C, Dowiana in shape. 
VaR. ALBA (Orch. Rev., III, p. 322) is a very handsome form, which 
appeared in the collection of W. S. M‘Millan, Esq., of Maghull, Liverpool, 
last year. It has white sepals and petals, with a lip very similar to that of 
typical C. x Hardyana. 
It is probable that numbers of artificially-raised plants will in time be 
forthcoming, as the two species have been crossed in various collections 
with this object, as has already been advised in these pages. One of such 
crosses was recorded at page 262 of our second volume, and we have since 
heard of others. 
Our illustration represents a plant in the collection of W. M. Applet 
Esq., Tyn-y-coed, Weston-sup ,and is reproduced from a photog 
taken by Mr. G. I’Anson, of Upper Clapton. 
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CATTLEYA GRANULOSA BANNERI. 
A very striking form of Cattleya granulosa was exhibited at the Royal 
Horticultural Society's meeting on July 28th, by S. Banner, Esq., 
Sherwood, Sefton Park, Liverpool, in which the sepals and petals were 
almost wholly suffused with bright lurid purple, instead of being light green 
and more or less spotted... The flower was very large, measuring 5% inches 
from tip to tip of the petals, and all the segments proportionately broad, 
while the lip was quite typical in shape and colour. The petals and dorsal 
sepal were a little paler at the base, as also the inner halves of the lateral 
sepals, which showed a few traces of spots, but the remainder was of a 
remarkable purple shade. It is remarkably different from the typical form. 
A single cut flower was sent. 
R.A. 
