Plate 27. 
ORANGE-BLOTCHED CATTLEYA. 
Cattleya ('Mossice) aureo-maculata. 
The fine Cattleya now figured, was bloomed in March last, 
for the first time in this country, by Messrs. Rollison and Sons, 
of Tooting, by whom the plant had been imported from Bahia 
in Brazil. It is remarkable for its very large showy flowers, 
which are much lighter coloured than in the common forms of 
C. Mossice , and also for the prominent deep orange-coloured 
stain which appears conspicuous beyond the mouth of the tube¬ 
like incurved portion of the lip, and is continued nearly to its 
base. The flowers are very handsome. 
The plant appears to be one of the pale-coloured varieties of 
Cattleya allied to C. Wageneri , but not technically distinguish¬ 
able from C. Mossice , of which they all may be considered as va¬ 
rieties, differing only in their peculiarities of colouring. It is 
not, however, the less valuable for this in an ornamental point 
of view, being quite distinct as to colouring. 
The pseudobulbs are clavately fusiform, supporting a single 
leaf of a thick fleshy solid texture, oblong form, and deep- 
green colour. The scape was short in the specimen we have 
examined, bearing a solitary flower, but the flowers are large, 
measuring six and a half inches from the tip of the dorsal 
sepal to the point of the lip, and upwards of seven inches 
across in the direction of the petals. The sepals are blush- 
white, lance-shaped, plane, rather over three inches long, and 
about an inch wide in the broadest part. The petals are shortly 
clawed, broadly ovate, obtuse, wavy and crisped at the edge, 
Plate 27.— Cattleya (Mossias) aueeo-macelata : habit and inflorescence 
as in C. Mossice; flowers very large; sepals lanceolate; petals ovate, obtuse, 
wavy, crisped, and minutely toothed, lip pale-rose with a large deep-orange 
central stain, the margin wavy-crisped, and denticulate. 
