154 ABOOTL ORCHIDS, 
painting by the steadiest of hands in angelic 
colour. C. g¢. Leopoldi has been found elsewhere. 
It is deliciously scented. I observed a plant at 
St. Albans lately with three spikes, each bearing 
over twenty flowers ; many strong perfumes there 
were in the house, but that overpowered them all. 
The Lela purpurata of Sta. Catarina, to which the 
finest varieties in cultivation belong, has shared 
the same fate. It occupied boulders jutting out 
above the swamps in the full glare of tropic sun- 
shine. Many gardeners give it too much shade. 
This species grows also on the mainland, but of 
inferior quality in all respects ; curiously enough 
it dwells upon trees there, even though rocks be at 
hand, while the island variety, I believe, was never 
found on timber. 
Another hot Cattleya of the highest class is C. 
Acklandig. It belongs to the dwarf section of 
the genus, and inexperienced persons are vastly 
surprised to see such a little plant bearing two 
flowers on a spike, each larger than itself. They 
are four inches in diameter, petals and sepals 
chocolate-brown, barred with yellow, lip large, of 
colour varying from rose to purple. C. Acklandie 
is found at Bahia, where it grows side by side with 
C. amethystoglossa, also a charming species, very 
tall, leafless to the tip of its pseudo-bulbs. Thus 
