CATTLEYA MARGINATA. 
(White-bordered flowered Cattleya.) 
Class. 
GYNANDRIA. 
Order. 
MONANDRIA. 
Natural Order. 
ORCHIDACEiE. 
Gkneric Characteh.— Sepals membranateeous, or 
flssliy, spreading, equal. Petals often larger. Label- 
lum cucullate, including the column, three-lobed or 
undivided. Column club shaped, elongated, semicylin- 
drical, marginate, jointed with the labellum. Anthers 
fleshy, four- celled. Pollen-masses four, with the caudi- 
cula^turned back. 
Specific Character.— PZan^ an epiphyte. Pseudo- 
bulb from an inch and a half to two inches long. 
Leaves elliptical, one on each pseudo-bulb. Flowers 
apparently solitary, on long drooping peduncles- Petals 
much larger than the sepals. Lip large, partially 
three-lobed, with the expansive part chiefly of a crim- 
sony sanguine hue, and having a white undulated 
border. 
The gorgeous Cattleya lahiata^ which may be regarded almost as the queen of 
Orchidaceae, is known to most admirers of the tribe, and at once arrests every 
observer when it is in blossom. The pretensions of the species now figured are 
more modest, but not less genuine. It is a perfect gem of its class, and becomes 
additionally interesting from the circumstance of its adaptation to the purposes of 
the cultivator in a picturesque point of view ; as it may be grown on a log of 
wood, and suspended from the roof of the hothouse. 
It is one of the many treasures in the collection of Messrs. Loddiges, of 
Hackney, and was imported by these gentlemen from Brazil. It blossomed in 
their Orchidaceous-house during the month of October last ; and our artist then 
took the drawing here inserted. 
In its dwarfness, it comes near C. pumila^ another lovely species, which is 
too little cultivated. The flowers are very large, compared with the size of the 
plant, and are borne singly on the top of the fresh pseudo-bulbs. They assume a 
drooping character, which greatly improves their effect when the plant is 
suspended. The sepals and petals are of tliat delicate rosy-crimson which is found 
in several species, and the handsome lip is much like that of C. lahiata ; but the 
last organ has a beautiful white border, which is the peculiar characteristic of the 
plant, and certainly renders it very attractive. 
Altogether, this is one of the most pleasing of Orchidacess, and well exhibit& 
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