LALIA PERRINII. 
[Pate 60. | 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Porudibiiths (stems) club-shaped, under a foot in height, becoming 
furrowed when old. Leaves solitary, oblong-obtuse, about as long as the stems, 
coriaceous, of a dark green colour. Spathes oblong, compressed, green, often tinge .d 
with purple, Scape two-flowered, purplish. Flowers large, about six inches in 
expansion, richly coloured; sepals linear-oblong, bluntish, the lateral ones falcate, of 
a diluted magenta-rose ; petals broader, oblong-lanceolate, of the same colour as the 
sepals; lip oblong-lanceolate, three-lobed, unguiculate, the base forming an inflated 
fistular cavity, the lateral lobes erect, acute, convergent over the column, the 
middle lip elongate, oblong-obtuse, wavy at the margin, the basal portion white 
inside, washed externally with magenta, the front ei of an intense velvety 
purple-crimson, Pollen-masses eight. - 
Laua Prrrinu, Lindley, Botanical Legister, 1842, under t. 62; Pasxton’s 
Magazine of Botany, xiii, 5; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 5 ed., 207. 
CATTLEYA PERRINII, se. Botanical Register, 1838, t. 2; Hastingen, Paradisus 
Vindobonensis, i., t. 10 
BLeTIA PERRINII, Rotohebaah fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematice, 
Vi, 421. 
The Lelia Perrinii is a very old species, and one that nearly all Orchid 
growers have seen or had in their possession, but we do not consider it too ancient 
to be introduced to the notice of our subscribers. It is a useful acquisition to the 
Orchid house, as it flowers when there are few Lelias. or any other Orchids in 
bloom. There are several varieties of this Lelia, which vary in colour, some being 
much paler than others. The form we here illustrate is part of an importation 
we received a few years ago, many of which bore blossoms of ‘the same cdlour as 
that here represented. A pure white variety also came from the same locality at 
the same time, but the latter is very rare, there being only a few plants in this 
country. The white-flowered forms seem to be making their appearance in many of 
the species of Lelia and Cattleya. We are glad to notice this, as they make a 
very pretty contrast with the dark-coloured flowers, of which we have so many in 
these two genera—genera which resemble each other very closely, the only tangible 
difference being in the number of pollen-masses. 
Lelia Perrinii is an evergreen plant, with dark green foliage and pseudobulbs, 
the leaves being about a foot high, and the pseudobulbs ten inches. The flower- 
spikes proceed from the top of the bulbs, and issue from a sheathing bract; they 
appear after the plants have completed their growth. The sepals and witals are 
