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LASLIA PERRINIT NIVEA. 
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Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems clavate, sheathed with scarious bracts, somewhat furrowed, 
deg green. Leaves solitary, fleshy, oblong-ligulate, emarginate, folded at the 
e, of a bright green colour, six inches long and an inch and a half wide. 
Peduncle green, two-flowered, issuing from an olive-green lanceolate compressed sheath. 
Flowers six inches across, very delicately coloured; sepals white, lanceolate-oblong, 
from a broad base, bluntish, plane, the lateral ones deflexed; petals also white, 
elliptic-oblong, wavy at the edge, about an inch broad; Up rather small, the basal 
portion rolled up over the column, which it about equals in length, entire at the 
edge, the front lobe oblong-ovate, proportionally large, frilled at the edge, the - 
undulations continued entirely round the mouth of the tube or throat, the inside 
of which is of a creamy or very pale sulphur-yellow, while the front lobe itself is 
of a pretty pale pinkish lilac, this colour extending along the edge so as to form 
@ complete border to the tubular part, and being cut off by a sharply defined 
curved line just outside the throat, beyond which a few darker streaks pass outwards 
towards the apex. Column white, just reaching to the mouth of the tube. 
Latta Perrinir nivea, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chromcle, N.8., Xi., 
264; Floral Magazine, n.s., t. 429. 
We now bring before our readers one of the most charming of white Orchids— 
‘ variety of Lelia Perrinii. It is a very rare plant, of which there are but few 
Specimens in cultivation, and these, so far as is known, were from the same source. 
There have been others: sold for the same thing, but, so far as our information 
Ses, they have hitherto proved to be varieties with light rose-coloured flowers, and 
= HOt 80 showy as the original form of the species. That, which is rich in 
colour, was figured in our second volume, at Plate 60. The variety of which we 
ead give an illustration blooms about the same time as the type, the two con- 
ng well one with the other, and they bloom, moreover, at a time when 
Orchids are scarce, | 
We are indebted to R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, in whose 
of preparing 
> and we must say that, as we saw it in this collection, we were very 
haracter they maintain 
and resembles the type in its 
Lelia Perrinii nivea is an evergreen variety, heath 
and blooms from a sheat 
' Of growth; it is furnished with dark green foliage, 
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