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the sepals and petals are of a deep purple-rose, slightly veined 

 with a darker hue, and the lip has the front lobe plane, not 

 warted, of a deep bright magenta colour, rounded spathulate 

 in outline, its lateral lobes white, tipped with rose. It is with- 

 out exception one of the finest plants known amongst Orchids, 

 blooming in July and August, whence it will be found an 

 acquisition for late summer shows. It was named in honour of 

 the late J. A. Turner, Esq., of Manchester. 

 Fig.— Warner, Sel Orch. PL, i. t. 12. 



L. Yeitclliaiia, Rchb. f. — A gorgeous hybrid, raised in 

 Messrs. Veitch's nursery at Exeter by Mr. Dominy so long 

 ago as 1858, and first bloomed in 1874:. It is the result of a 

 cross between Cattleya lahiata and C. crispa. The stems are 

 short fusiform, clothed with spotted sheathing scales, and 

 terminating in oblong dark green leathery leaves. The 

 flowers are long, four or five on a scape, with lanceolate 

 sepals of delicate lilac, ovate lanceolate undulated petals of a 

 somewhat deeper colour, and a splendidly coloured lip, of 

 which the anterior half is rich crimson-purple, and behind this a 

 sulphur yellow disk, streaked with purple in the central part, 

 the whole having a narrow pale lilac border. The lip is 

 rather narrowed towards the apex, thus showing an approach 

 to C. crispa. — Garden hjbrid. 



'ElG.—Floi-al Mag., 2 ser., t. 305 ; Gard. Cliron., xx. 142, with fig. of entire 

 plant in supp. sheet. 



L. "Wyattiana, Pichh. f. — A lovely species, imported in a 

 set of the short-bulbed ioxmoi L.jnirpurata. The flowers are 

 about the size of Cattleya crispa, and of membranous texture ; 

 the sepals and petals are white, the latter very acute, and 

 the lip, which is similar in shape to that of C. crispa, so as to 

 be subrhomboid, and undulated towards the front, has the 

 nerves on the disk dark purple, the side ones coloured only 

 at the base, the central ones coloured through their whole 

 length ; the side lobes are light yellow outside, the anterior 

 lobe light purple. It flowers during the autumn. This was 

 first flowered by G. Nevile Wyatt, Esq., of Cheltenham, who 

 has a large and choice collection of Orchids. — Brazil, 



L. xailtMna, LindUy. — A very distinct and pretty species, 

 which is also rather rare. The stems are clavate-fusi- 

 form, about a foot high, monophyllous, the leaves oblong- 

 lorate bluntish, and the scape four to six-flowered, issuing 



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