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sufficiently acquainted to say how it differs from the last.” Lindley had 
received it for name in February, 1849. Fourteen years later a description 
was published by Bateman (Gard. Chron., 1864, p. 269), who remarked :— 
“This beautiful Cattleya is quite distinct from every previously known 
species of this genus. A single plant of it was introduced many years ago 
by Mr. Rucker from New Granada, and to his kindness I am indebted for 
the specimen that is now (March tst) flowering at Knypersley, and from 
which the above description has been drawn up.” He then alludes toa 
dried flower and sketch in Lindley’s Herbarium, the former being correct, 
but the latter was made by Lindley from a flower sent by Hadwen in May, 
1853, from a plant received from the Rio Negro. This Lindley wrongly 
identified with his earlier C. quadricolor, but: it belongs to C. Eldorado 
(which was not described till long afterwards) as both the .coloured! sketch 
and the dried flower from which it was prepared show. In 1865 Bateman’s 
plant was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 5504), where we get the 
additional information that Mr. Rucker originally obtained it from a 
correspondent who met with a single plant on the upper waters of the 
Rio Magdalena—which, in the light of recent information, we may infer to 
have been the Rio Cauca. Bateman also remarked that the segments ‘‘ do 
not spread themselves out as freely as those of most other Cattleyas do,”’ 
and that.up to the present time he had ‘seen no Cattleya with such closely 
imbricated white flowers,” which, taken in conjunction with the fact that 
no other plants had yet appeared, raised the question whether it were not a 
peloria of some other species; finally adding :—‘‘ Whether or no C. 
quadricolor itself will have to be added to the list of cancelled species is a 
question that time only can determine.’’ In 1868 Gustav Wallis, when 
collecting for Mr. J. Linden, sent home a fine lot of Cattleyas from the 
Rio Atrato, which received the name of C. chocoensis in 1870 (André in 
Ill. Hort., xvii., p. 37), and three years later a plate appeared showing six 
differently coloured forms (I.c., xx., p. 43, t. 120). It was described as not 
only a new type, but a veritable tribe of varieties, in allusion to the 
variation in colour; the campanulate shape of the flowers, owing to their 
petals being sessile and broad at the base, were also well pointed out, and this 
character is well seen in all the figures above cited, as well as in our present 
one, which is reproduced from a photograph sent by Dr. Hoisholt. Dr. 
Hoisholt’s plants were collected by Mr. John E. Lager, and show much 
variation, one having a stripe in the petals, and another being the nearest 
approach to an albino that we have met with, having a little of the faintest 
_ possible tint of blush in the throat, round the yellow disc. Althongh this 
Cattleya is not equal to C. Trianz in point of beauty, its distinctness seems 
now to be fully established, on which account we hope to see it better 
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