thin, flat, yellow, broadly obovate pollen-masses, connected in pairs by 
the base of their filaments. 
The most splendid, perhaps, of all orchideous plants, which 
blossomed for the first time in Britain in the stove of my gar- 
den in Suffolk, during 1818, the plant having been sent to me 
by Mr W. Swainson during his visit to Brazil. 
The individual here dehneated is an offset from the parent 
plant just mentioned, and it flowered at the Glasgow Botanic 
Garden in November 1824, continuing in great beauty for se- 
veral days. The agreeable odour which Mr Lindley men- 
tions as having been perceptibly exhaled by the flowers of the 
specimens from which his figure in the Collectanea Botanica 
was taken, was not evident in the blossoms of the present indi- 
vidual, although Mr Cattley's plant was derived from the 
same source. 
The genus Cattleya is clearly defined by Mr Lindley in 
his Collectanea Botanica^ where an excellent representation is 
also given from the pencil of Mr Curtis. A second species 
of the genus is the Cattleya Loddigesii of Lindley, {Epi- 
dendrum molaceum of Loddiges). 
Fig. 1. Side view of the column of fructification. Fig. 2. Front view of the 
same. Fig. 3. Side view of the anther. Fig. 4. Under side of the an- 
ther, shewing how the pollen-masses lie, and are connected by the base 
of their filaments. Fig. 5. One pair of pollen-masses, removed from 
the cells. Fig. 6. Single pollen-mass. Fig. 7- Under side of the an- 
ther-case, shewing the four cells — All magnified. 
