LJELIA AMANDA 



[Plate 135.] 



J^ative of Brazil. 



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Epipliytal. Stems thin, fusiform, a foot to a foot and a lialf in liciglit, dipliyllous 



by a sheathing muci 



Leaves cuneiite Hgnlate, bluntly 



inches long, coriaceous, of a Mit orreen. Peduncles two flowered issuins: from a 



small narrow spathe. Flowers five to six inches across, delicately coloured; scpah 

 Hgulate-oblong acute, entire, of a flesh-colour or pinkish blush with purple veins, tlic 

 dorsal one three inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, the lateral onos 

 somewhat longer and broader, slightly falcate-deflexed ; petals hnear-obloiig blunt, three 

 inches long, and an inch broad, of the same pinkish-blush or pale rosy-hlac as the 

 sepals, but more distinctly veined ; lip three inches long, rosy Ulac, m.-irked by 

 longitudinal veins, with a cordiform base, three-lobed, the lateral lobes folded over 

 the column and about twice its length, the front edoje rounded and slightly wa^y, 



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the middle lobe projecting an inch and a half, roundish- oblong, obtuse, npiculate 

 prettily veined with magenta, the few strongish central veins parallel, the rest 

 divergent and variously netted, the tip paler, the veins continued through to the 

 margin which is crispulate. Column decurved, semitercte, winged, magenta except 

 about the stigmatic hollow which is white, the apex toothed. 



L.«LiA AMANDA, ReichenhacJi Jil, in Gardener^ Chronicle, N.s., xviii., 11^- 

 Cattleya Rothschildiana, of some gardens. 



We are pleased to be able to figure and describe such a distinct species of 

 ^(slia as the subject of our present plate, which forms quite a new type in the 

 genus. It produces very chaste looking flowers, and is decidedly novel in the style 

 of marking of its lip. There have been many new varieties of the Z. e%'"«.' and 

 ^. anceps type introduced of late, but few have proved so good /»/? tliu.c of^tnined 

 niany years before: for example, of the forms of white anceps, none ai. . ^> good as 

 I^- cvnceps Bawsoni; and of the elegaiis type, there are none to surpn^s L ekgnm 

 <ilha and the dark L. elegans Turneri, and other beautiful sorts win. h lui^ht be 

 named. Our drawing shows quite a distinct and novel form as compand wjih 

 these, and was taken from a plant in the fine collection of W. K. Brymer, E^q.. 

 M.P., Ilsington House, Dorchester. There are many fine Ochi.k inrludcd m Mr. 



Brymer's collection. , . , ^ 



l<BUa aniamla is an evergreen species, with pseudobulbs attninmg about eicrhtecn 

 inches in height, and light ^reen leaves. The flowei. are pivxluc d m npngl- 



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