LAELIA LINDLEYANA. 
[PLaTE 526.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs many, from a creeping rhizome, slender, fusiform, about 
the size of a goose-quill, five or six inches high, diphyllous. Leaves linear- 
lanceolate acuminate, four to six inches in length, leathery, dark glaucous green, 
keeled at the back. Scapes produced from the top of the young pseudobulbs, 
two or more flowered. Flowers four to four and a half inches across; sepals and 
petals lanceolate-acute, white slightly suffused with pale purplish rose, the tips 
stained exteriorly with amethyst-purple ; Jip oblong, funnel-shaped, obscurely three- 
lobed, lateral lobes enclosing the column, front Jobe reflexed, veined and stained 
with rosy purple, throat pale greenish yellow. 
CattLteyaA Linpitevana, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Berliner Allgemeine Gartenzeitung, 
E57, p. 118. Hooker, Botanical Magazine, t. 5449. Bateman, Second Century 
of Orchidaceous Plants, e375, 
Bret1a Linpteyana, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Xenia Orchidacea, ii., p. 112, t. 135. 
Lartia Linpieyana, Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Sleness part i., p. 78. 
Williams, Orchid rowers Manual, 7th edition, p. 439. 
One of the rarest of Laelias is undoubtedly Laelia Lindleyana, for it is but 
seldom met with in Orchid collections. It was first imported by Mr. Linden from 
Santa Catherina, in South Brazil, in 1857. Sir William Hooker, the then Director 
of the Royal Gardens, Kew, received it in 1863 from Bahia, through Mr. C. H. 
Williams; this provided the material for the figure in the Botanical Magazne, 
but Sir William Hooker erroneously attributed the name to Mr. Bateman, who, 
probably, was simply responsible for the identification of the plant. 
Owing to the somewhat abnormal condition of the pollinia, the plant has 
been referred first to Cattleya, then to Bletia, and finally to Laelia, with 
which it has most affinity. Messrs. Veitch & Sons, in their Manual of Orchidaceous 
Plants, part ii, p. 74, suggest that it is probably of hybrid origin, in which 
Cattleya intermedia may have participated; if this view be correct, the plant 
would ultimately have to be referred to Laelio-Cattleya. 
Laelia Lindleyana is an evergreen plant producing many slender fusiform 
pseudobulbs from a creeping rhizome, each bearing two linear-lanceolate acuminate 
leaves which are from four to six inches in length, leathery, dark glaucous green, 
and keeled at the back. The scapes are produced from the top of the young 
pseudobulbs, and are two or more flowered. The flowers measure from four to 
