Propagation is effected by dividing the plant just as it begins to break into growth. In performing the operation two or three pseudobulbs should be detached from the plant, having a leading bulb; when taken off at this stage the plants soon become established.
Dendrobium Wardianum.—A fine variety of this grand Dendrobe comes from D. Alroy Salamon, Esq., Clapham Park. The specimen has very large flowers, four and a-half inches in diameter, and of great substance. The sepals and petals are one and a-quarter inch broad, of a pure white, heavily tipped with rich magenta; the lip is very large, and also heavily blotched with magenta, the throat being rich orange with two dark brown eye-like spots. These flowers were from an imported plant, and we are curious to see whether it will produce equally fine flowers from the home made growths. If so we shall hope to figure it at some future time, as in the state in which it has just bloomed, it is certainly one of the finest and best forms of this splendid species which we have met with. It is also a free grower.—B. S. W.
Dendrobium Falconeri.—Mr. Priest, Gardener to the Marquis of Lothian, has sent us some fine flowers of this favourite Dendrobe. He informs us that the plant from which the flowers were taken has 150 blossoms upon it. This must be a remarkably fine specimen, and well cultivated, to produce flowers in such profusion.—H. W.
PL. 45. CATTLEYA TRIANÆ.
CATTLEYA TRIANÆ.
[[Plate 45].]
Native of Colombia.
Epiphytal. Stems oblong, club-shaped, furrowed, about a foot in height, clothed with whitish membranaceous sheaths. Leaves solitary, coriaceous, ligulate-oblong, recurved at the tip, of a deep green colour, six to eight inches long. Scape two or three-flowered, proceeding from a terminal oblong compressed brownish bract or sheath, about two inches long. Flowers large, variable in colour, from white to a dilute delicate tint of rosy purple in the typical form, the lip being of a rich magenta; sepals three inches or more in length, oblong-lanceolate, plane, of a delicate blush or pallid tint of rosy purple; petals of the same colour, rhombeo-ovate, retuse, crispulate at the anterior edge; lip convolute at the base, where it is of a pale purplish mauve, the front lobe obovate, rounded and crimped in the anterior part, where it is bilobed, wholly covered with crimson-magenta, exceedingly rich and brilliant, the disk marked with a broad rich orange-yellow bilobed blotch. Column club-shaped, bearing at the tip a pair of sickle-shaped wings.
Cattleya Trianæ, Linden and Reichenbach fil., in Mohl and Schlechtendal’s Botanische Zeitung, xviii., 74 (1860); Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicæ, vi., 315.
Cattleya labiata Lindigiana, Karsten—fide Reichenbach fil.
Cattleya labiata Trianæ, Duchartre, Journal de la Société Impériale d’Horticulture, 1860, 369—fide Reichenbach fil.
Epidendrum labiatum, var. Trianæ, Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematicæ, vi., 315.