Epiphytal. _Stems_ erect, club-shaped, becoming furrowed in age, nearly a foot in height, monophyllous, evergreen. _Leaves_ oblong-obtuse, leathery, dark green. _Scape_ two-flowered, issuing from an oblong sheath. _Flowers_ about five inches across, exceedingly handsome, the lip being very richly coloured; _sepals_ linear-lanceolate, entire, the dorsal one recurved, of a soft pale magenta-rose; _petals_ much larger and longer, broadly ovate-obtuse, the margin slightly wavy, scarcely denticulate, about two and a quarter inches broad, of the same pale rosy hue as the sepals, the mid-rib strongly developed towards the base; _lip_ comparatively small, but intensely rich in colour, bluntly keeled at the back towards the base, plane for about half its length, with the margins closely folded over the column, rosy at the edge, strongly flushed with crimson and veined with golden yellow; the front lobe roundish-oblong, one and a half inch wide, its edges meeting over the throat, the margin being finely but neatly frilled, as also are the sides of the broadly-rounded deeply-emarginate apex; the colour in the expanded portion is a very rich velvety crimson in the central area, passing near the front edge to a band one-fourth of an inch wide of the pale rose of the petals, and continued narrower along the sides, the disk and the sides of the tubulose basal portion flushed with maroon-crimson, everywhere richly veined with deep yellow, giving the appearance of bronzy gold, and having two elevated golden ridges extending to the base. _Column_ thick, clavate, white, with a blunt keel at the back, extending nearly to the apex, which has a small inflexed acute appendage lying between the two blunt lobes of the anther bed. Cattleya labiata Percivaliana, _Reichenbach fil._, in _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., xvii., 796.