LALIA FLAMMEA. 
[PLaTE 217. | 
Garden Hybrid. 
Epiphytal. Stem slender, cylindrical, about a foot high, the internodes covered with 
dusky sheaths which are of a darker brown at the tip. Leaves solitary, oblong- 
ligulate obtuse, of a dark green colour. Pedunele issuing from a compressed ter- 
minal pale brownish green spathe, and bearing from four to seven strikingly hand- 
some blossoms. lowers expanded, highly-coloured, measuring from four to four 
and a-half inches across; sepals (dorsal) recurved, lanceolate, entire, the lateral ones 
linear-faleate, deflexed, all of a brilliant tint of cinnabar, or deep rich orange red; 
petals also lanceolate, but somewhat broader than the sepals, of the same rich 
cinnabar or deep orange colour; Zip about one and a-half inch long, three-lobed, SF 
side lobes folded upwards over the column, orange-yellow slightly streaked with ae 
veins, their blunt anterior ends spreading, the front lobe rounded, denticulate, 
blotched in the fore part, the discal portion without crests and veined with crimson. 
Column small, trigonous, white tinted with purple below the stigma. 
Latta rtammea, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, ws. i. 599; Id. v. 
394; Florist and Pomologist, 1874, 133, with tab; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s 
Manual, 6 ed., 358. 
The new hybrid Lelia, represented in the accompanying p _ gre gree 
and a great acquisition to our collections on account of the beautiful colour of i 
flowers. Unfortunately it is very rare, there being, so far as we teehee. soa 
few plants of it in existence. It is the result of a cross effected = - —— 
ment of Messrs. Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, between Lelia cinnabarina - aoe 
Pilcheriana, the latter being also a cross-bred form raised by the — — ‘ : 
have been most successful in their experiments in hybridising Orchids. This — 
has been accomplished by careful selection, and by perseverance In aaa ou “i 
object they have had in view; and it is by reason of these faculties that they have 
a : i in the numerous 
So remarkably successful in obtaining good results, which are manifest in 
meritorious varieties they have added to our collections. There are also pert Be 
amateur cultivators some who are working out similar experiments, ez — seh 
that their essays may likewise be productive of new floral gems, since Se aca 
would act as a strong stimulus to induce them to continue a pursuit ei of their 
be fascinating to those who take an interest in watching the veda ie ection 
hybrids, although it may be a long time before some of them arrive . 2 Ww Le e 
ur drawing was taken from a well-grown plant in the gran or an id Orchids 
Esq., Downside, Leatherhead, where are to be found many other fine hybn 
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