L^LIA 



ELEGANS PEASIATA. 



[Plate 97.] 



Native of Brazil. 



high 



I 



Epiplijtal. Stems 



Leav 



d, terete, clavate, jointed, about one and a half foot 



green 



m pan-s at the top of the stems, lincar-oblonGf, obtuse 



Racemes short, erect, six to 



I 



compressed bract, the peduncles and pedicels otccu 



inches 



Flowers 



1 



purplish 

 y, five 



.^, v.^..^«^, coriaceous, deep 

 flowered, issnin.or from an oblong 



^ across; sepals about thi-ce inches long, oblanceolate, the edges rcvolute and 

 the tips recurved, of a light magonta-rose, paler towards the base, having a greenish 

 tint along the centre, and a distinct flush of purple; petals obovate-hni.-.'olate, acute 



an inch broad, of a deeper rose than the 



margins undulated 



column 



1 with 



lip 



sej 



d h 



a flush of grccu, the 



lobed, the lateral lobes elongate, white, rolled over the 



much 



rose at ^ the ^edgos,- and of ^a bright rosy crimson at the tip 



insversely-reniform, crenate and 



the front lobe an inch and three-fourths in breadth 



deep* 

 paler 



lated at the margin, of a rich mngenta-crimson, 



crimson, the veins most evid 



sed by veins of 



disk smooth. Column clavate, marginate, enclosed 



in the centre where the ground coolur 



is 



L^LI 



ELEGANS PEASIATA, Reichenloch ni, in litteris, 1863 : Id. Botanische 



Zeitung, Octoher, 1864; Id. Gardener 



Chronicle, n.s., xix 



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11 



iety) 



The Lselias form a glorious class of 



certainly rank amongst the 



Orchids, including many 



species which 



most beautiful of the 



mbrace 



hole family. Their flow 



arly every shade of colour, including bright orange, yellow, pure white, 



They are all extremely beautiful, notwithstanding 



magenta, rose, and many others, 

 that some of them produce large fl 



while those of others are much smalle 



for the latter are often of a more brilliant colour than the larger kinds, which is 



amj)le compensation 



The particular form we now bring 



The whole family, without exception, is well worth growinti 



handsome 



lety, and when first bloomed had 



before the notice of our readers is a ver}' 



of the same type as Lcelia Turner 



flowers p 



as per sis ; it is 



series of Mr. Warner' 

 a drawing taken from 



of which there is a grand plate in the first 



Select Orchidaceous Plai 



Our illustration 



as prepared from 



specimen, bearing two spikes, and which produced six beautiful 



flowers on each, in the select collection of Baron Schroder. The U 



Staines 



Lcelia 



egans pi 



IS an 



about eighteen inches high, 



of a dark green colour. It prod 



ergreen plant, producing stems or pseudobulbs 



furnished with two leaves which are six inches 



flo 



from the 



iig 



and 



bulb when it has com 



pleted its growth, and the 

 and petals are of a dull 

 masrenta. ■? 



J 



from a sheath, six or more together 



ma 



o 



tinged with 



ore en 



to 



the lip being of 



hile the external part of the lateral lobes, where they roll inwards 



The sepals 

 a bright 



over 







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