Marcu, 1908. ] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 89 
CATTLEYA x FABIA VAR. VIGERIANA. 
Tue annexed figure represents a very beautiful specimen of Cattleya X 
Vigeriana, which was shown by M. Ch. Maron, at a meeting of the Société 
Nationale d’ Horticulture de France held at Paris in November last, and is 
reproduced from a photograph sent by the exhibitor. It was obtained from 
C. Dowiana aurea crossed with the pollen of C. labiata flammea. It is a 
variety of C. x Fabia, which was raised by Messrs. Veitch, from the same 
two species, and flowered for the first time in 1894. It is a most beautiful 
hybrid, and the present example shows what it may develop into under 
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Fig. 16. CATTLEYA X FABIA VAR. VIGERIANA. 
good culture, there being about eighteen flowers on the plant. Nothing 
need be added to the above graphic presentment except as regards colour. 
It has been figured by M. Goossens (Dict. Ic. Orch., Cat. hyb. t. 84), and 
the flower is shown as being of the richest deep rose-purple, with a rather 
darker lip, on which ts traced the characteristic deep yction veining of 
C. Dowiana. It was originally exhibited by M. Maron in November, 1901, 
at Paris, and a year later it received an Award of Merit from the R.H.5. It 
is a most beautiful autumn-flowering plant. 
