PL. CCCV. 
CATTLEYA x HARDYANA rchb. f. var. LAVERSINENSIS L. LAND. 
M r HARDY’S CATTLEYA, LAVERSINE VAR. 
CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl, ed., vol. I, p. 7. 
Cattleya X Hardyana. Pseudobulbi clavato-fusiformi, subcompressi, sulcati, monophylli. Folia lineari-oblonga, 
obtusa, emarginata. Racemi circa 4-flori. Flores speciosissimi. Sepala lineari-lanceolata, acuta, apice recurva. Petala 
elliptico-ovata, obtusa, undulata. Labellum integrum, elliptico-oblongum, apice bilobum, valde undulatum. Columna 
clavata. 
Cattleya Hardyana Williams Orch. Gr. Man., ed. 6 (1885), p. 633. — Gard. Chron., 1885, pE H, p. 206. — 
Warn. & Will. Orchid Album, V, t. 231. — Rolfe in Gard. Chron., 1889, pt. 2, p. 560. 
C. X Massaiana Williams Orchid Album, VIII, t. 362. 
he first notice I find of this magnificent Cattleya is in the Gardeners’ 
Chronicle for August i6 th 1884, where under the heading of “ A New 
Cattleya ” we read : — “ An extraordinary variety, evidently a natural 
hybrid between C. aurea and a variety of C. gigas — probably Sanderiana — is 
now in bloom in the collection of George Hardy, Esq., Pickering Lodge, 
Timperley, Cheshire. In form and size it is a magnificent thing, and in the 
richness of the labellum it is just what might be expected from the blending of 
the bright orange veining in the throat of C. aurea with the expanded rich 
crimson half of the other parent. It is wonderfully beautiful and sweet. 55 
Shortly afterwards it was more fully described and its history given. It was 
purchased for M r Hardy as Cattleya gigas var. Sanderiana , about the year 1880, 
and until it flowered for the first time no différence was suspected. It was 
imported in a batch of the two parent species from Frontino, in the State of 
Antioquia, on the western Cordillera of New-Granada. It is an extremely beau¬ 
tiful Cattleya, and shows characters derived from both parents. The sepals and 
petals are light rosy-mauve, with a little white at extreme base, and the lip with 
the front lobe and margin of the side lobes of a very deep rosy-purple, the dise 
reticulated with clear yellow nerves, and a large yellow blotch on either side. 
It is very sweetly scented, like C. Dowiana , but the végétative organs are more 
like those of the other parent. 
The above remarks apply to the original , typical C. X Hardyana , but 
several other forms hâve since appeared, which are clearly derived from the 
same parentage, and must therefore be classed as varieties. C. x Massaiana 
is one of these, and chiefly differs in having the sepals somewhat marbled with 
white, chiefly on the dise, and the lip less veined, with the eye-like spots rather 
more clearly defined. The petals approach C. Dowiana in shape. Other forms 
