[PLATE 96.] 
THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA. 
(LZELIA PURPURATA). 
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A magnificent Stove Epiphyte, from St. CATHARINE’S in Brazil, belonging to the Order of ORCHIDS. 
; Specific Character. 
THE PURPLE-STAINED LJELIA. Pseudobulbs oblong. | LZELIA PURPURATA ; pseudobulbis oblongis, foliis 
Leaves marginate. Pe inati â 
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b 
i Peduncles two- angusté oblongis emarginatis, pedunculis bifloris غ‎ spathá 
0 m a is lineari latis. i 
lanceolate ; petals oblong-lanceolate, obtuse. Lip very lanceolatis obtusis, labello maximo circa columnam con- 
large, rolled round the column, rounded, the lateral lobes voluto rotundato lobis lateralibus obsoletis ab intermedio 
very obscure and hardly distinguishable from the middle parum diversis, 
one, 
NE of the most striking novelties which has for a long time been seen was produced by Messrs. 
Backhouse of York, at one of the garden meetings of the Horticultural Society, under the name 
of a new Cattleya from the island of St. Catharine’s in Brazil. It had in fact much the appearance 
of Cattleya crispa, or of a white C. labiata, but the experienced eye of one of our most acute 
Orchidophilists suggested to him at the first glance that it was probably a Lelia related to 
L. Perrinü. And such it proved to be when the pollen-masses were examined; they are eight, 
not four. | 
The pseudobulbs are oblong, and produce at their end a narrow oblong blunt leaf, as broad at one 
end as the other, about eight inches long, and deeply notched at the point. In the axil of the leaf 
comes a compressed pale green spathe fully three inches long, and much like that of Cattleya labiata. 
The peduncle which appears from within this is stout, deep green, and two-flowered. The flowers 
are rather more than six inches from the tips of the petals. Sepals and petals pure white ; the 
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