[Puate 105.] 
THE HAYTIAN LALIOPS. 
(L-ELIOPSIS DOMINGENSIS.) 
يك‎ ss) Werte hea 
A handsome Hothouse Epiphyte, from Sr. Domingo, belonging to the Natural Order of Orcas. 
Generic anv Specific Character. 
LÆLIOPS. A Cattleya in all respects, except that the | LZELIOPSIS. Omnino Cattleya, nisi quod flores membra- 
owers are membranous, and the veins of the lip nacei neenon venze labelli tæ. 
bearded. 
THE HAYTIAN LÆLIOPS.  Pseudobulbs 2-leaved. | LÆLIOPSIS DOMINGENSIS ; pseudobulbis 2-phyllis, 
Leaves oblong, coriaceous, obtuse. Scape slender, naked, foliis oblongis coriaceis obtusis, scapo gracili nudo apice 
with about 8 flowers at the end. Lip 2-lobed, with its sub 8-floro, labelli 2-lobi laciniis denticulatis undulatis 
divisions wavy, dentieulate, recurved. Central veins recurvis venis centralibus barbatis. : 
bearded. 
Cattleya domingensis: Lindl. Gen. & Sp. Orch., p. 118; Broughtonia lilacina : Henfrey, in Gardener’s Magazine of Botany, 
Vol. IIL, p. 201, with a figure. 
wr is the genus of this beautiful plant? LxLrA? no; because it has only four pollen-masses— 
BROUGHTONIA ? no; for although its flower is deeply cuniculate, yet it has not a long external 
adnate spur and decurrent sepals—EprpenpruM ? no; for it wants the unguiculate lip more or less 
united to the colamn—CarrreyA? still no; although we once thought it one; for the flowers are 
membranous, the veins of the lip bearded, and the habit quite different. 
We see no means of providing a fixed station for this and a few allied plants, except by giving 
them a genus to themselves, the essential features of which shall consist in what has been above 
proposed. There is no doubt that CaTrLExa, EPIDENDRUM, and BROUGHTONIA, are so very nearly 
related that on mere technical grounds they might be all placed in the same genus: but their habits 
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