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CATTLEYA Loddigesii. 
Long-stalked Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA—Nat. Ord. ORCHIBEJE. 
Gen. Char. — Perianthium resupinatum, patens, laciniis subaequalibus. Co- 
hmna libera, semiteres, labello eroso cucuUato amplexa. Anthera infra 
apicularis opercularis persistens, columnae apice subulato supertecta, 
4-locularis ; septis completis membranaceis marginatis. Massce poUinis 
4, lenticulares, per pares filo elastico granulato in ipsis reflexo connexae. 
LiNDL. 
Herbae parasiiicce ( Americce Mquinoctialis ) ; bulbis fasciculatis ; foliis soli- 
tariis (vel binis) carnosis enervibus ; floribus terminalibus geminis gran- 
dibus subodoris. 
Cattleya Loddigesii ; perianthii laciniis 'subaequalibus obtusis, labelli 
trilobo lobo medio sellseformi. — Lindl. 
Cattleya Loddigesii, Lindl. in Coll. Bot. p. S3, (sub C. labiata.) 
Epidendrum violaceum, Lodd. Bot. Cab. t. 337. 
Parasitic. Stem almost a foot high, jointed (scarcely bulbous), the joints 
linear-oblong, compressed, furrowed, pale green, at the top bearing two 
oblong, thick, fleshy, dark green, patent, nerveless leaves ; from the 
centre of which rises the peduncle, sheathed at the base with a larger, 
compressed, membranaceous, greenish bractea, and having at the ex- 
tremity about 4 remote large handsome flowers. Petals oblongo-lan- 
ceolate, waved, spreading, and even recurved, of a beautiful rose-colour, 
sprinkled with dots of a deeper hue. Lip large, standing forward, as 
long as the petals, at the base rolled into a tube inclosing the column, 
of a pale rose colour, at the extremity deeply 3-lobed, lobes large, cre- 
nate and waved, the two upper ones white, the lower one much the 
largest ; emarginate, edged with rose colour ; the palate furrowed. 
Column pure white, semicylindrical, broadish upwards. Anther small, 
situated in the front, just beneath the apex, and above the convex viscid 
stigma, hemispherical, laterally compressed, white, within 4-celled, in 
two pairs ; each cell is occupied by a yellow flesh pollen-mass, with a 
foostalk appressed to its edge, and by means of which the pollen- 
masses are united in pairs. Germen very long, terete, thickest upwards, 
pedunculiform. 
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