THE ORCHID REVIEW. 71 
CATTLEYA TRIANZ VARIETIES. 
THE popular and variable Cattleya Triane has been flowering in all its glory 
during the month of February, and the following notes are taken from a 
series of flowers sent by esteemed correspondents, and supplement to 
some extent the account given in our third volume (pages 114-119), where 
we attempted to give a classified list of the different varieties which have 
been described. 
A series of six particularly fine forms are sent from the collection of’ 
Joseph Broome, Esq., Sunny Hill, Llandudno (gr. Mr. Axtell), whose 
development and brilliant colour testify to the excellent treatment they 
receive, on which point Mr. Broome remarks :—‘‘ I am an old grower, and 
superintend myself, and endeavour to impress my gardener with the 
necessity of intelligent ventilation, watering, heat, moisture, light, &c., or 
he cannot have large and handsome flowers. Plants will grow and do 
well for those who cherish them; of that I am sure, and have proved.” 
This is another and better way of putting an old saying that ‘ Orchids 
know those who treat them well,” and certainly nothing could be more 
eloquent on this point than the flowers now received. 
The first is magnificent, both in form and colour. In shape the breadth 
and undulation of the segments, with their graceful pose, it closely 
resembles C. T. Arkleana, figured at page 81 of our fourth volume, but the 
flower is larger and quite different in colour. The sepals and petals are 
bright rosy mauve, the latter being 34 inches long by 23 inches broad. 
The tube of the lip is rather deeper in colour, and the front lobe of a 
nearly uniform shade of brilliant amethyst, rather darker in front of the 
orange-yellow disc, which is reduced to a broad V-shaped band. The 
flower is also of exceptional substance. We refer it to the variety 
magnifica. It is not the famed Osmanii, being different in colour, and if 
the two published plates of that are reliable it is superior in shape. 
The second form is larger, the petals being four inches long, but 
scarcely any broader, and the colour, as also of the sepals, blush-pink, 
while the lip may be described as typical in shape and colour, but corres- 
pondingly large. 
A third is practically identical with the variety REINE DES BELGEs, 
mentioned below, but is decidedly larger, the petals measuring 3% by 2% 
inches. 
A fourth is remarkable for possessing a narrow white band which 
extends between the yellow disc and the narrow rosy margin of the side 
lobes, while the front lobe is bright amethyst. The sepals and petals are 
light blush. It corresponds pretty closely to the variety ZONATA, described 
at page 72 of our last volume. 
