scape 2 feet tall, carrying up to six flowers, each about 4 inches across. Sepals 
and petals are oblong and pointed with wavy edges, and rose-purple in colour. 
Lip white flushed with rose with a purple tip and a yellow centre. The flowers 
are fragrant and appear in late Autumn or early Winter. They last well. 
Variety alba.—Flowers pure white. 
Variety atrorubens.—Flowers larger than the type. Deep crimson shading to deep 
pink in the centre. 
LAELIA CINNABARINA. Native of Brazil. 
A handsome and distinctive species with pseudobulbs (sheathed with protective 
scales) which are swollen at the base but taper to a narrow stem at the top. They 
grow to about 10 inches tall and bear usually one (though sometimes two) erect, 
dark green, pointed, leathery leaf. The erect scape grows to 15 or 20 inches high 
and bears anything up to six or seven flowers, each about 2} inches across, with 
narrow pointed petals and a funnel-shaped lip with wavy edges. The whole flower 
is reddish-orange in colour. Flowers in Winter and lasts five or six weeks in 
perfection. Treatment as for second group. 
LAELIA CRISPA. Native of Brazil. 
Another handsome species of the second group with stout, club-shaped, flattened, 
furrowed pseudobulbs up to 10 inches in length, bearing a solitary stout, green 
leaf about a foot long and rounded at the top. Scape carries up to half-a-dozen 
large flowers, each about § inches in width. The narrow, pointed sepals are 
white, as also are the petals whose edges are wavy and crinkled. The side lobes of 
the lip curl over the centre, while the front lobe is oblong, wavy and pointed. The 
side lobes are white on the outside and yellow and purple on the inside, while 
the front lobe is amethyst veined with purple. The throat has a blotch of purple. 
Flowers in Autumn, the blooms lasting up to a month under favourable conditions. 
Syn. Cattleya crispa. 
LAELIA DIGBYANA. (See Brassavola Digbyana with which it is synonymous.) 
LAELIA DORMANIANA. Native of Brazil. 
A small growing species of the second group, with flowers of strange colouring. 
The stems are slightly swollen at the base, but are rarely more than a third of an 
inch in thickness and very much furrowed. They carry from one to three wedge- 
shaped, oblong leaves, each about 4 inches in length. Flower spikes from the top 
of the stems carry three or four flowers each between 3 and 4 inches in width. 
The rather narrow sepals and petals are olive-brown, veined with purple, the 
petals having thin margins spotted with blotches of port-wine colour. The front 
lobe of the lip is deep purple, while the side lobes are lighter in shade, and the 
whole lip is veined with purplish-crimson. Flowers in Autumn and Winter and 
lasts well. 
LAELIA FLAVA. Native of Brazil. 
A pretty species with plants of a similar growth to those of L. cinnabarina. Scapes 
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