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deep rosy purple, with a white disk bearing three yellow 

 crests, the throat also is white striped with crimson-purple. 

 This plant was first flowered by De B. Crawshay, Esq., Rose- 

 field, Sevenoaks ; it flowers in January. — Mexico. 



L. crispa. — See Cattleya ckispa. 



L. crispilabia, A. Richard. — A very pretty plant, some- 

 what resembling L. cinnaharina in habit, though very distinct 

 in the colour of both the leaves and flowers. It has slender 

 pyriform pseudobulbs, tapering upwards like those oi L. cinna- 

 harina, each bearing a solitary light green leaf, which is of 

 evergreen character, and from the side of which at the top of 

 the pseudobulb grows a scape a foot in length, bearing about 

 half a dozen moderate-sized flowers, which are of an amethyst 

 or purple-lilac colour, the lip being deeper amethyst and 

 rolled over the column at the base, wiiite in the centre por- 

 tion, with the margin of the oblong acute reflexed middle 

 lobe of a still deeper amethyst ; the disk bears three crenulate 

 keels. It succeeds very well when grown with other kinds 

 of L(cUa, if afi'orded plenty of light, and never allowed to get 

 perfectly dry ; it grows about a foot high, bearing on its 

 flower spikes four to six medium-sized delicate purple flowers, 

 which continue in perfection for several weeks. — Brazil. 



YlG.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, ii. t. 6. 

 Syn. — L. Lawrenceann. 



L. Dayana, Bchh. f. — A beautiful and distinct dwarf com- 

 pact-growing species, and a very desirable addition to the 

 group, the more so as it is a winter-flowering plant. It is 

 of dwarf habit, grooving about six inches in height, with clus- 

 tered oblong somewhat clavate monophyllous stems, the leaves 

 elliptic-oblong, fleshy coriaceous, and the scape terminal one- 

 flowered. It is a small grower, in the way of J/, prcestans, the 

 flowers nearly four inches across, the sepals and petals rosy, 

 the lip rich purple-magenta, the throat yellowish white, 

 with numerous deep purple keels. A very free-flower- 

 ing species, which blossoms at the time it is making its young 

 growth from the axil of the leaf, and lasts for three or four 

 weeks in perfection. We find it does well in the Odonto- 

 glossum house with cool treatment. It is named in honour 

 of J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Albvm, iii. t. 132 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 249, 



Sin. — L.pumila Daijana. 



