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LALIO-CCATTLEYA (HYBRIDA) ARNOLDIANA Row. 
A hybrid between Leelia purpurata, Lindl. and one of the summer-flowering varieties of Cattleya labiata, Lindl. and generally intermediate in char- 
acter. It is a plant of vigorous habit, with narrowly fusiform, monophyllous, somewhat compressed pseudobulbs, 6 to 8 inches long. Leaves stout, bright 
shining green, about a foot long by 2% inches broad. Flowers over 7 inches across. Sepals narrowly lanceolate, and of a delicate pale rosy-purple. Petals 
very much broader than the sepals, drooping or decurving at the tips, beautifully undulate, slightly darker than the sepals, and with a few darker veins in the 
centre. Jip very large, front lobe nearly three inches across, intense magenta-crimson with darker veins and a paler very undulate margin ; the infolded side 
lobes much paler in colour, throat pale golden-bronze, with darker radiating lines on the disc. Column white. 
L&LI0-CATTLEYA (hybrida) ARNOLDIANA, Rolfe in Lind. Journ. d. Orch., IL, p. 134; Lindenia, t. 299. 
La&LIA (hybrida) ARNOLDIANA, Hort. Gard. Chron., 1891, pt. I, pp. 740, 742 ; Journ. of Hort., 1891, p. 1, p. 491, fig. 93. 
The splendid hybrid which is the subject of the present plate was raised in the establishment of Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, from Lelia 
purpurata fertilised with the pollen of one of the summer-flowering varieties of Cattleya labiata; which one does not appear to have been recorded. The 
seed was sown in 1881, and in ten years the plants reached the flowering stage. One of them was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on June gth, 1891, when it was awarded both a First-class Certificate and a Silver-Gilt Flora Medal. The flower bears considerable resemblance to 
Lelia purpurata in its general shape, but modified in the direction of its Cattleya parent, both in the breadth and curve of the petals, the shape and undulation 
of the lip and the colour generally. It is a great horticultural acquisition. R.A. Rolfe. 
Our analytical drawings represent the column, seen from front and side, and the pollinia, seen from the side. 
Tuts high-class hybrid orchid has been raised in our establishment, and is the result of a cross between Lelia purpurata 
and a variety of Cattleya labiata, combining the free dwarf habit of Cattleya labiata with the noble foliage of Lelia 
purpurata. To say that it is one of the most magnificent orchids yet raised, is a fact, in support of which we draw our 
readers’ attention to its having gained a First-class Certificate and also the Silver-Gilt Flora Medal for the best seedling 
orchid of the year. Such honours have never previously been bestowed on any orchid at one time. The class was a 
special one provided by the Royal Horticultural Society, at its meeting at the Drill Hall in June of last year. The 
exceptional merit and astonishing beauty of this mule was the admiration of all horticulturists, and especially the 
orchidists. The seed was sown in 1881, and the plant flowered for the first time in 1891—just ten years from the 
ripening of the seed. 
Lelia hybrida Arnoldiana is a very free-growing plant of good habit, the stout fusiform pseudo-bulbs being seven 
to twelve inches long, with leaves a foot or more in length by three inches in width, ample, bright-shining green, some- 
times tinged with purple, of great substance. The flowers are upwards of seven inches in diameter, with a wavy, graceful 
outline and bold contour. The sepals and petals are of a rich rosy-purple hue, suffused with crimson, the latter much 
undulated at the margins and strikingly veined with dark purple. The labellum is upwards of three inches in diameter, 
of a superbly rich crimson coloration, densely suffused with magenta and traversed. by dark purple veins. The throat is 
of a golden bronze colour. The whole aspect of the noble inflorescence displays the exceptional merit of this grand 
hybrid, produced under artificial conditions and brought to perfection in ten years. 
The cultivation of this plant is simple and easy. It may be well grown with Cattleyas and Lezelias, at the warmest 
end of the Cattleya house. A little more heat than is usually given to “ Trianze” and “ Mendelii” is necessary, especially 
in the growing season. 
Our plate was taken from a plant now in the collection of Hicks Arnold, Esq., 8 East 84th Street, New York, U.S.A. 
