[Plate 34.] 



WALKER'S CATTLE YA. 



(CATTLEYA WALKERIANA.) 



A Stove Epiphyte, from Brazil, belonging to the Natural Order of Orchids. 



Specific Character. 



WALKER'S CATTLEYA. — Stems oval, stalked, each having one leaf. Leaves oblong, thick, concave. Flower-stalks 

 1-2-flowerecl, with a small spathe-like bract. Petals oval, wavy, membranous, twice as wide as the sepals. Lip 

 smooth, naked, with short lateral roundish lobes, and the middle lobe rounded and two-lobed. Column broad, 

 thick, rounded off at the upper end. 



Cattleya Walkeriana, Gardner, in the London Journal of Botany, vol. ii., p. 662 : alias C. bulbosa, 



Bot. Register, 1847, t. 42. 



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FOR the opportunity of figuring this beautiful flower in really fine condition^ are 

 indebted to C. B. Warner, Esq., in whose collection, at Hoddesdon, blossomed the 

 specimen which we have represented. In the Botanical Register a small specimen was 

 published some years since, from Mr. Rucker's garden, under the name of Cattleya bulbosa, 

 its identity with what the late Mr. Gardner had previously called Walker's Cattleya not 

 having been suspected. Mr. Backer's plant had, however, a much more richly-coloured lip 

 than this, and must have been a distinct variety. 



According to Gardner it inhabits the country beyond the diamond district of Brazil, 

 where it was found by Mr. Elward Walker, his assistant, on the stem of a tree overhanging 

 a small stream which falls into the Rio San Francisco. 



The stems are club-shaped and furrowed, each having one leathery, concave, blunt leaf, 

 which is by no means wider at the base than apex ; when young or ill-grown they are short 

 and oblong, in which state they gave rise to the name C. bulbosa, now cancelled. The flowers 

 grow singly, or in pairs, from within a short, narrow, reddish spathe, and are full five inches 

 in diameter, fragrant and bright, but not deep, rose colour. The sepals are oblong, acute, 

 and membranous. The petals are broad, oblong, acute, slightly wavy, but not lobed. The 

 lip, which is a richer rose than the other parts, is small, roundish at the end, and emarginate, 

 with two narrow, erect, lateral lobes, which fold over the lower part only of the column. 

 The column itself is very broad, fleshy, rounded, with no lobes or notches such as are found 

 in C. joumila. 



