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PL. CCCLXXXV. 
LAELIA PURPURATA uinpL. var. FASTUOSA. 
THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA, SUPERB VARIETY. 
LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41. 
Laelia purpurata. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41. 
Var. fastuosa. Varietas floribus roseis, petalis roseo-purpureo flammeis. 
Var. fastuosa Hort., Moran in Journ. des Orch., IV, pp. 102, 103, fig. 57. — GoweErR in The Garden, 
June roth, 1893, p. 477. 
aelia purpurata is certainly one of the showiest and most popular of 
garden Orchids, and at the same time it is also very variable. The 
typical form has pure white sepals and petals with a purple lip, as 
was shown at t. 282 of this work. Two of its handsome varieties have also 
been figured, namely var. alba, at t. 283, and var. rosea, at t. 302. Many 
other brilliant forms have received distinctive varietal names, and among 
them the one to which the present plate is devoted. 
Laelia purpurata var. fastuosa flowered in the collection of L’Horticutrure 
INTERNATIONALE in May last, when the accompanying plate was prepared. It is a 
very handsome form. The sepals and petals are broad and well formed, and of a 
bright rose tint, the latter being much darker in their upper’ half and along the 
centre and nerves. The well formed lip is deep crimson-maroon tipped with 
lilac, and the throat white. It is very distinct and handsome. The markings 
on the petals closely resemble those of the variety discolor (RotFe in Orchid 
Review, I, p. 199), in which, however, the sepals are blush white, and the 
flower generally lighter in colour. 
The principal variations to which this species is subject, and the varieties 
then in existence, were indicated in this work about two years ago, since which 
time some additions to the list have been made, as an enumeration of no 
less than twenty-eight varieties is given by Comte pe Moran in the Yournal 
des Orchidées for June 15th last, where indeed a flower of the present variety 
is figured. 
It is certain that this handsome species and its varieties will continue to 
hold a position in the very front rank of cultivated Orchids for a long time 
to come. 
R. A. Ro.re. 
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