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CATTLEYA Loppicestt. 
Long-stalked Cattleya. 
GYNANDRIA MONAND RIA. —Nat. Orv. ORCHIDEL. 
Gun. Cuar. —Perianthium resupinatum, patens, laciniis subeequalibus. Co 
lumna libera, semiteres, labello eFoso cucullato amplexa. Anthera infra 
apicularis opercularis persistens, columne apice subulato supertecta, 
4-locularis ; septis completis membranaceis marginatis. Masse pollinis 
4, lenticulares, Bey pares filo elastico granulato in ipsis reflexo connexe. 
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Herbe parasitice ( Americee fEquinoctialis) ; bulbis fasciculatis; foliis soli- 
tariis (vel binis) carnosis enervibus ; ; floribus terminalibus geminis gran- 
dibus subodoris. — 
Cattleya iodine I z A ccianihit | ais * Auhagualans ke labelli 
trilobo lobo medio selleeformi. —Lindl. 
Cattleya Loddigesii, Lip. in Coll. Bot. p. 33. (sub C. labiata.) 
Epidendrum violaceum, Lopp. Bot. Cab. t. 337. 
Parasitic. Stem almost a foot high, jointed (scarcely bulbous), the joints 
linear-oblong, compressed, furrowed, pale green, at the top bearing two- 
green, patent, nerveless leaves; from the- 
oblong, thick, fleshy, dark 
centre of which rises the peduncle, sheathed at the base sith a larger, 
compressed, membranaceous, greenish bractea, and having at the ex- 
tremity about 4 remote large handsome flowers. Petals oblongo-lan- 
ceolate, waved, spreading, and even recurved, of a beautiful rose-colour, 
sprinkled with dots of a deeper hue. Tip large, standing forward, as 
long as the petals, at the base rolled into a tube inclosing the column, — 
of a pale rose colour, at the extremity deeply 3-lebed, lobes large, cre- 
nate and waved, the two upper ones white, the lower one much the | 
largest; emarginate, edged with rose colour; the palate furrowed. 
Column pure white, semicylindrical, broadish needs Anther small, 
situated in the front, just beneath the apex, and above the convex viscid 
stigma, hemispherical, laterally compressed, white, within 4-celled, in 
two pairs; each cell is occupied by a yellow flesh pollen-mass, with a 
foostalk appressed to its edge, and by means of which the pollen- 
masses are united in pairs. Germen very long, terete, thickest upwards. 
pedunculiform. : | 
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