cultivating for its ornamental qualities, and its unique ap¬ 
pearance. 
In Mr. Veitch’s plant, which formed a considerable-sized 
mass with numerous heads of flowers, the stems were clavate, 
furnished at top with two or three thick oblong blunt-ended 
leaves, of a dark green, from amongst which issued the com¬ 
pressed yellowish-green spathe, out of which the spike of flowers 
was just elevated. The flowers, from six to eight in number 
on each stem, were lifted on their long, stalk-like ovaries, 
into a short, corymbose head. The sepals were linear lanceo¬ 
late, acute, about an inch and three-fourths in length, and 
nearly three-eighths in width, of a pale pinkish-buff colour, 
from the orange stain already alluded to ; and the petals were 
as long, or rather longer, lanceolate, and somewhat wavy at the 
margin, three-fourths of an inch wide, light rosy-purple, 
suffused with buff. The lip was rather shorter than the sepals 
and petals, long, narrow, and acute in its normal position with 
the basal portion of the sides incurved over the column; its 
upper half, which was moderately spread out, was somewhat 
keeled from the partial elevation of its sides, so as to measure 
about three-eighths in expansion (nearly six-eighths when flat¬ 
tened out), and this part was of a deeper and brighter rosy- 
purple, which colour was continued on the incurved sides, the 
lower side at the base being orange-coloured, marked with 
deep crimson lines, passing into spots. The column was short, 
white, club-shaped, semiterete and marginate; and the pollen- 
masses four in number. 
Referring to Cattleyci Skinneri , Mr. Skinner mentions that it 
inhabits the hot damp coasts of Guatemala, and is always 
found on high trees, seldom bearing any lichens, so that the 
moisture from the heavy rains soon passes off; neither does it 
seek shade, but rather, like Epidendrum aurantiacum , exposed 
places. These two species being the companion plants of that 
now figured, the circumstances of their growth may furnish a 
useful hint in respect to its cultivation. 
