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PAXTON'S FLO WEE GARDEN. 



Perhaps the nearest relation of this plant is with C. superba, from which, however, its dwarf habit 

 and incomplete lip readily distinguish it. 



All known species of tins beautiful genus are so highly deserving cultivation that an enumeration 

 of those which are at present grown seems desirable, especially since the list published some years 

 since in the Botanical Register, now requires many important additions. The arrangement there 

 proposed seems, however, to answer all the purposes of the cultivator as well as of the botanist, and is 

 therefore followed in the following catalogue : — 



CATTLEYA. 



Section I. — Lip rolled round the Column. 

 Skction II. — Lip flat, not rolled round the Column, and 

 without lateral lobes. 



Section I. 



* Sepals of the same texture as the Petals, the lateral 

 ones being nearly straight. 



1. C. superba, Lindl. Sertum Orchid., t. 22; alias C. Schom- 



burghii, Lodd. Cat., alias Cymbidium violaceum, Hum- 

 boldt and Kunth. — Demerara. — Flowers deep rose- 

 coloured, fragrant, with a deep crimson lip. 



2. C. elegans, Morren, Annales de Gand, t. 185. — St. 



Catharine's, in Brazil. — Flowers large, l'ose-coloured, 

 with a deep purple-violet lip. Very like C. superba, 

 except in colour, but the leaves are represented as 

 being much narrower, and the lip is said not to have 

 either wrinkled veins or callosities. Unknown to us 

 except from Professor Morren's figure made from a 

 Belgian specimen in the possession of M. Alexander 

 Verschaffelt. 



3. C. Skhmeri, Bateman, Orch. Mex. et Ouatemal., t. 13. — 



Guatemala. — Flowers deep rich rose colour, with a 

 crimson lip. 



4. C. Walkeriana, Gardner, in Lond. Journ. Bot., vol. ii. 



p. 662 ; alias C. bulbosa, Lindl. in Bot. Register, 1847, 

 t. 42. — Brazil. — Sweet-scented, dwarf, with large rose- 

 coloured flowers. 



5. C. pumila, Hooker, in Bot. Mag., t. 3656 ; Bot. Reg., 1844, 



t. 5 : alias C. marginata, alias C. Pinellii of Gardens. — 

 Brazil. — A dwarf species with a lobed column, deep 

 rose-coloured flowers, and a rich crimson crisp lip, often 

 edged with white. In C. Pinellii, the flowers are much 

 paler. 



6. C. maxima, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch., No. 4 ; Bot. 



Reg., 1846, t. 1. — Guayaquil and Colombia. — Flowers 

 bright rose, with convex petals, and a lip richly varie- 

 gated with dark crimson veins traced upon a pallid 

 ground. 



7. C labiata, Lindl. Collect Bot., t. 33 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1859 ; 



Bot. Mag., t. 3988 : alias C. Mossice, Bot. Mag, 

 t. 3669 ; Bot. Reg. 1840, t. 58.— Tropical America,— 

 — The two forms to which the above names have been 



applied, differ in little except colour. In C. labiata, 

 the lip is stained with one deep uniform tint of crimson ; 

 in C. Mossice, it is richly variegated with crimson veins 

 upon a yellowish ground. The first is from swamps 

 in Brazil, the latter is from the Caraccas, where it 

 grows at an elevation of three thousand feet above 

 the sea, sporting into many charming modifications of 

 colour. 



There is a C. quadricolor in the possession of Mr. 

 Rucker, with which we are not sufficiently acquainted 

 to say how it differs from the last. 



8. C. Lemoniana, Lindl. in But. Reg., 1846, t. 35. — Brazil. 



— Flowers pale pink, whole coloured. 



9. C. lobata. — Brazil. — Flowers deep rich rose, whole 



coloured. Of this species, in the possession of Mr. 

 Loddiges, we shall probably take an early opportunity 

 of giving some account. 



10. C. crispa, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., t. 1172; Bot. Mag., 

 t. 3910. — Brazil. — Flowers white, crisp, with a rich 

 crimson stain in the middle of the lip. 



11. C. citrina, Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch., No. 8 ; Bot. Mag., 

 t. 3742 : alias C. KarwinsTcii, Martius Choix, p. 15, 1. 10. 

 — Mexico. — Flowers bright yellow. 



** Sepals somewhat herbaceous, or more coriaceous than 

 the Petals, the lateral Sepals manifestly falcate. 



12. C. Loddigesii, Lindl. Collect. Bot., t. 37 ; alias C. in- 

 termedia, Graham, in Bot. Mag., t. 2851 ; alias C. 

 vestalis, Hoffmansegg. Bot. Zeitung, 1. 831 ; alias C. 

 Papeiansiana, Morren, Ann. Gand, p. 57; alias C. 

 Candida of gardens. — Brazil, in marshes. — The original, 

 C. Loddigesii, has pale purple flowers ; in C. inter- 

 media or Candida, they are nearly white. 



13. C. Harrisoniana, Bateman, in Bot. Reg., sub t. 1919. — 

 Brazil. — Flowers lilac, the lip with a deep blotch. 



14. C. maritima, Lindl. in Bot. Reg., sub t. 1919.— Brazil. 

 —Unknown in gardens ; probably not distinct from 

 C. Loddigesii. 



15. C. Arembergii, Scheidweiler, in Garten-Zeitung, 1843, 

 p. 109. — Brazil. — Unknown to English botanists. Flowers 

 large, lilac, sweet-scented. 



16. C. Forbesii, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 953. — Brazil. — Flowers 

 greenish yellow. 



17. C guttata, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1406 ; alias C. elatior t 



