2 CATTLEYA ACLANDIiE. 
flowered a lovely variety of this plant, in which the floral sepals and petals were 
much paler and less spotted than usual. Probably, on becoming further known, 
it will be found to vary still more in the colours of its flowers, and likewise to 
produce them in more copious clusters. 
It is associated with C. bicolor in the form of its labellum ; and, in conjunction 
with that species, constitutes a distinct section of the genus. The peculiarity is in 
the lip, which is too narrow and too expansive to cover the column ; all other 
species having the column completely enclosed by the upper portion of the lip. 
Cattleyas, and this among the rest, do not need so high a temperature nor so 
much moisture as the majority of Orchidaceae ; requiring a kind of intermediate 
treatment between the most decidedly tropical sorts and those from colder localities. 
C. Aclandiw, however, differs from 
its allies in flourishing best on a 
suspended log of wood, without any 
protection to its roots beyond a 
little moss. The lowness of its 
growth fits it admirably for such a 
position, and it is both cultivated 
and seen to greater advantage under 
these circumstances. In winter, it 
should receive hardly any w T ater, 
and be kept entirely torpid. 
By carefully removing one of the 
stems, and subjecting it to the treat- 
ment common to older plants, the 
species may be easily propagated. 
The wood-cut shows the entire plant on a greatly reduced scale. 
The generic name commemorates W. Cattley, Esq., of Barnet, Hertfordshire, 
one of the earliest collectors of Orchidacese, and a great promoter of practical 
botany. 
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