Plate 61. 
GUATEMALAN CATTLEYA. 
Cattleya guatemalensis. 
The plant which the accompanying figure represents is a 
very curious one, remarkably distinct in aspect from other 
species known in cultivation, and though certainly less showy 
than the fine varieties of C. labiata , C. Mossice , and others, yet 
not without attractive qualities, in its fioriferous habit, and its 
unusual colour: indeed, it was adjudged to be worthy of a first- 
class certificate by the Eoyal Horticultural Society’s Floral 
Committee, when exhibited at one of the meetings of that 
body in March last. 
The specimen to which this award was made, and from 
which our figure has been prepared, was cultivated and ex¬ 
hibited by Mr. Yeitch, of the Eoyal Exotic Nursery, Chelsea, 
to whom the plant had been sent from Guatemala by G. U. 
Skinner, Esq., a gentleman who has contributed much to our 
knowledge of the Orchids of Central America, and whose 
name is commemorated in the fine Cattleya SMnneri , which was 
also introduced by him. Our present subject was found by 
Mr. Skinner, growing in company with Cattleya SMnneri , and 
Epidendrum aurantiacum on the stem of the same tree, from 
which circumstance, and from the singular flush of orange- 
colour which runs through the whole flower, the opinion has 
been hazarded that it may be a wild or natural hybrid between 
those two species. However this may be, it is a plant worth 
Plate 61.—Cattleya gljatemalexsis : stems clavate; leaves oblong, 
obtuse; flowers 6-8 in a corymbose spike; sepals linear lanceolate; petals 
lanceolate, slightly wavy; lip about 1^ inch long, shorter than the petals, the 
base rolled over the short column, the apex spreading, ovate, acute, and 
somewhat keeled, bright purplish-rose, orange-coloured and spotted towards 
the base ; pollen-masses four. 
