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The first introduction arrived in good condition during the 

 month of April, 1890. In one of the cases of this shipment, 

 about a dozen plants were in blossom, and the flowers were 

 naturally very much torn and injured by the voyage. But all 

 the rest bore flower-stalks which were entirely dried, and, as 

 can readily be seen, it was impossible to tell if the flowers had 

 been borne four or five months or a year before. Those which 

 were received in flower were placed together in one of our 

 houses, but they have not blossomed again ; they are different 

 from those which have flowered later. I shall speak only of 

 those which flowered later than October. 



61 In the meantime anew shipment had been made, and as 

 soon as the first general blossoming took place, in October 

 and November, 1890, we found that we were in the presence 

 of C. labiata var. autumnalis. At a meeting of the Orchid^enne, 

 which was held the 9th day of November, A. Van Im- 

 schoot, of Ghent, and the Count of Bousies exhibited the 

 old type of this species. The entire force of the Orchid^enne, 

 composed of Messrs. James O'Brien, J. Linden, Count of 

 UMata* Bousies, F. Kegeljan, Massange de Louvrex, G. Miteau, J. 

 Moens, Em. Rodigas, Dr. Van Cauwelaert, A. Van Im- 

 schoot, and E. Wallaert, were of the opinion that there ex- 

 isted no difference between these two plants and" the Cattleya 

 Warocqueana exhibited by us, unless, perhaps, certain varie- 

 ties of C. Warocqueana had a more highly colored labellum. 

 Mr. O'Brien, especially, emphatically asserted this in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle of November 15, 1890, while relating his 

 visit here. Some of the varieties are so exactly like the true 

 6 autumn-flowering labiata ' that actual comparison with the 

 true plant, and careful scrutiny by several good judges, failed 

 to find a point whereby those forms of the new introduction 

 can be separated from it, and which is thought to come from the 

 same locality as the original plant. On the 10th of Novem- 

 ber, the plant sent to the above meeting being still on exhibi- 

 tion, Jules Hye, of Ghent, sent us a flower of C. labiata var. 

 autumnalis, which he had acquired at the sale of Mr. Tautz. 

 There was no difference between this flower and the majority 

 of the blossoms in our own houses. I can also give the 

 opinion of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M. P., President of 

 the Royal Horticultural Society of London. During a visit 

 which he paid to the Horticulture Internationale about two 



