and there also finely toothed, three and a half inches long, by 
two and a half wide, and of a rather deeper blush than the 
sepals. The lip is obovate, emarginate, rolled over the column 
at the sides, and undulated and frilled as well as minutely 
toothed towards the front; it is of a pale delicate tint of mauve- 
purple, deepest on the rolled-up part, and in the centre, pro¬ 
jected on the fiat expanded part beyond the column, is an elon¬ 
gated stain of a deep orange-colour, extending to the base, 
and spreading out in front into a fan-shaped form. There is 
none of the coloured veining occurring in the commonly known 
forms of this species. The column is green below, white above, 
semiterete, rounded behind with sharp lateral angles, some¬ 
what clavate, the side angles dilated in the form of two wings 
above, with an apical tooth between them. 
The climate in which some of these Cattleyas are found in 
Brazil, has been thus described by Mr. Gardner, whose observa¬ 
tions may afford a useful hint to cultivators:—“ At this eleva¬ 
tion (2000 feet) the climate is very much cooler than it is at 
Rio. In the months of May and June, the thermometer has 
been known to be as low as 32° just before day-break; the 
lowest at which I observed it myself was one morning at the 
end of May, when at eight o’clock it indicated 39°. The highest 
to which it rose during the six months I resided there, was in 
the end of February, when one day it indicated 84° at noon. 
The hot season is also the season of rains, and it is then that 
the mass of the Orchids, and almost every other tribe of plants, 
come into flower. From these facts cultivators ought to take a 
lesson in the cultivation of the productions of this and of simi¬ 
lar regions. The greater part of the Orchids which are sent 
to England from the Organ Mountains, grow in the region of 
the above temperature, the elevation being from 3,000 to 3,500 
feet above the level of the sea.” 
