Plate 8. 
EOLLISSON’S CATTLEYA. 
Cattleya Uollissonii . 
We learn from Messrs. Rollisson, of Tooting, with whom 
this plant flowered for the first time in February and March last, 
that it had been imported by them from the Organ Mountains 
of Brazil. It is a lovely plant, quite distinct in a cultural point 
of view from all others which have found their way into the 
rich Orchid collections of this country, and quite deserving of 
a place in even the most select among them. 
Though distinct for all garden purposes, the plant now figured 
no doubt comes near to what Professor Reichenbach has called 
Cattleya Wageneri , but this again is specifically undistinguish- 
able from Cattleya Mossice , of which both these and some others 
known in collections are therefore to be regarded as white or 
pale-flowered varieties. We are fortified in this view by the 
opinion of Professor Bindley, who has very kindly examined 
the flowers. 
The pseudobulbs of C. Uollissonii are clavately fusiform, 
bearing a solitary, thick, oblong leaf. The scape is short, two- 
flowered. The flowers are smaller than in some other forms of 
Mossice, measuring about five inches long from the tip of the dor¬ 
sal sepal to the point of the lip. The sepals are blush-white, 
lanceolate, upwards of two inches long, and about three-fourths 
of an inch wide. The petals are also blush-white, short but 
broad, of a bluntly roundish-ovate outline, suddenly narrowed 
Plate 8.— Cattleya (Mossim) Kollissoxii: habit and inflorescence as 
in C. Mossice; petals bluntly roundish-ovate, suddenly narrowed at the base 
into a short claw, slightly wavy-crisped, and somewhat denticulate, blush- 
white ; lip blush-white, with a deep orange-yellow stain in the centre, and a 
pale-lilac belt near the front, the incurved side-lobes-lilac, the margin some¬ 
what wavy and denticulate in front. 
