356 okohid-growib's manual. 



L. Dominiana, Rchb. f. — This glorious hybrid was raised 

 in Messrs. Veitch's nursery by Mr. Dominy, and is the result 

 of a cross between Cattleya Dowiana and a species of LcBlia, 

 probably L. elegans. It is similar in habit to Cattleya Mossia, 

 having short fusiform one-leaved pseudobulbs, but the leaves 

 are longer, more in the way of L. elegans. The flowers are as 

 large as those of that species, and splendidly coloured ; the 

 sepals and petals are bright rosy purple, with darker reticu- 

 lations, and are similar in shape and size to those of C. 

 Dowiana, while the lip is of an intense and beautiful deep 

 blood purple, the rich dark colour being carried to the margin, 

 and the tube only showing a little of the golden venation of 

 C. Dowiana. It is to be regretted that this plant, through 

 being a hybrid, must always be scarce, as its great beauty 

 and distinctness claim for it the premier position among the 

 dark -flowered Lcelias. It flowers in August. — Garden hybrid. 

 I'lG.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 325. 



L. Dominiana rosea, Veitch. — A very fine hybrid LcRlia, 

 raised by Mr. Dominy from Cattleya exoniensis, crossed with 

 G. Dowiana. The flowers are of moderate size, the sepals 

 and petals are pale lilac-rose, and the lip is in the way 

 of that of C. Doiviayia, of a rich purple-crimson, and well 

 crisped at the margin, an inch and three-quarters wide, and 

 upwards of two inches long. It is very distinct. — Garden 

 hybrid. 



L. Dormanniana, Rchh. f. — A fine Lalia, supposed to be a 

 natural hybrid between Cattleya bicolor and Lalia 2Jumila. 

 It has thin slender terete sulcate stems, bearing one or two 

 leaves, which are cuneate oblong-ligulate, and two to five- 

 flowered peduncles. The flowers, which are as large as those 

 of C. superba, are very distinct in form ; the sepals and 

 petals are olive-green, marbled outside with a light vinous 

 purple ; the odd sepal and petals are prettily decorated with 

 numerous dark port wine coloured spots round the margin ; 

 the front lobe of the lip is of a bright purplish crimson, the 

 lateral lobes rosy crimson, distinctly veined with purplish 

 crimson. It flowers in December and January, and probably 

 at other seasons, as it is very free-blooming. — Brazil. 



L. elegans, JRchb. f. — A magnificent species, with slender 

 terete clavate stems, two feet high or more, bearing at top one 



