354 orchid-geower's manual. 



November and December, and lasts about three weeks in per- 

 fection. — Mexico. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, ii. t. 49. 



L. bella, Rchb.f. — A very fine hybrid, the result of a cross 

 between L. purpurata and Cattleya Inbiata. It was raised in 

 Messrs. Veitch's nursery, and was first flowered by Baron 

 Schroder, The Dell, Staines. In its habit of growth it 

 partakes most of the character of the last-named parent. The 

 flowers are large, the sepals and broader petals light lilac, and 

 the lip with a broad anterior wavy lobe of warm purple, and 

 light purple disk. The column is white, tinged with purple at 

 the sides ; and at the mouth of the tubular portion of the lip 

 are two oblong zones of yellowish white, and in front of them 

 two spots of the same colour, as in C. Warscewiczii. It flowers 

 in January and February. — Garden hybrid, 



L. BootMana. — See Cattleya lobata. 



L. Brysiana. — See Ljelia purpurata Brysiana, 



L. cinna'barilia, Bateman.—k charming and distinct species, 

 very compact in growth. The pseudobulbs are stem-like 

 elongated subcylindrical, but broadest at the base, clothed 

 with sheathing scales, and bearing one or two linear-oblong 

 acute leathery leaves. The scape is terminal, erect, bearing a 

 raceme of five or six flowers, which are of a uniform reddish 

 orange colour, the sepals and petals narrow lanceolate, the 

 former about an inch and a half long, longer than the 

 convolute crisped lip. It blooms in March, April, and May, 

 lasting six weeks in beauty. This makes a good plant for 

 exhibition on account of its unusual and very distinct colour. 

 — Brazil. 



'ElG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4302 ; Faxton, Mag. Bot., vii. 193, with tab. ; Serium 

 Orch., t. 38. 



L. Crawshayana, Bchb. f. — An interesting plant, supposed 

 to be a natural hybrid, having ovate sulcate pseudobulbs as 

 in L. albida, but somewhat flattened, and bearing one or 

 two leaves, which are also like those of L. albida. The scape 

 is elongated, as in L. anceps, to which the flowers, two on the 

 scape, bear some resemblance, but the sepals and petals are 

 narrower, and of a fine amethyst-purple colour, the anterior 

 lobe of the lip and the tips of the side lobes being of a fine 



