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CATTLEYA QUADRICOLOR. 
CATTLEYA QUADRICOLOR and C. chocoensis were both originally described 
as distinct species, and afterwards considered to be merely forms of 
C. Triane, but the receipt of some interesting flowers and photographs 
from Dr. A. M. Hoisholt, of Stockton, California, has led to a 
re-consideration of the question, and an alteration in their arrangement. 
The latter was indeed omitted from the revision of the genus Cattleya 
(ante, vol. i11., pp. 266-270) on account of some additional information which 
there was not time to sift, but it now appears to be synonymous with 
Lindley’s original C. quadricolor, and quite distinct from C. Triane. A 
very interesting article, entitled ‘‘ Cattleya chocoensis at home,’ by 
Mr. John E. Lager, in the Florists’ Exchange, was reproduced in these pages 
JUADRICOLOR. 
FIG.” 5." CATTLEYA 
(ante, vol. ii., p. 307), and this, with some supplementary notes (vol. 
p. 358), established the fact that the species which it describes is a native of 
the western chain of the Andes, along the Rio Cauca, from Tulna down to 
the neighbourhood of Fredonia and Concordia, in Antioquia, at about 2,000 
to 3,600 feet above sea level (not in the Choco Valley at all), and quite 
apart from C. Trianz ; while its botanical features are equally well marked. 
Its identity with C. quadricolor is also sufficiently clear. The earliest 
mention of the latter plant is in Paxton’s Flower Garden, 1850 (vol. I, p. 6), 
where, in a note under C. labiata, Lindley remarks :—‘‘ There is a C. 
quadricolor in the possession of Mr, Rucker with which we are not 
