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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x EXIMIA nort. 
THE DISTINGUISHED LAELIO-CATTLEYA. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 25. 
Laelio-cattleya X eximia, Hybrida inter Cattleya Warneri et Laelia purpurata artificiose producta. 
Laelio-cattleya X eximia Hort., Gard. Chron., 1890, i, p. 800. — ROLFE in Fourn. des Orch., I, p. 165. 
his very beautiful hybrid was raised by Mr Sepen, in the establishment 
of Messrs James Verrcu and Sons, of Chelsea, between Cattleya Warnert 
and Laelia purpurata, the former being the seed parent. It flowered for 
the first time in 1890, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 
Society on June 24th. of that year, when it was awarded a First-class Certificate. 
It is specially interesting as the first hybrid obtained from Cattleya Warneri. The 
plant afterwards passed into the collection of Baron Scuroper, of The Dell, 
Egham, and the annexed plate was prepared from materials kindly forwarded by 
him in June of the present year. 
The flowers of this charming plant are large, well-formed, and of good 
substance. The sepals and the broad petals are of a beautiful rosy lilac, and 
the lip very large, and bearing a considerable resemblance to that of C. Warneri 
in shape, and somewhat intermediate between those of the two parents in colour. 
It is of a bright rose-purple, the front being of a deeper shade, like that of some 
of the varieties of Laelia purpurata, and the throat orange-yellow. 
It is one of a series of very brilliant forms which have all been derived 
on the one hand from Laelia purpurata, either as the seed or pollen parent. With 
Cattleya labiata it yielded Laelio-cattleya x bella; with Cattleya Mossiae it yielded 
Laelio-cattleya X Canhamiana ; and with Cattleya Warscewiczir it yielded Laelio- 
cattleya X callistoglossa. Thus we have four of the most beautiful hybrids in 
existence raised between Laelia purpurata and the Cattleyas of the labiata group, 
which facts should be very suggestive to those who are engaged in the fascinating 
work of raising new varieties from seed by artificial crossing. 
R. A. Ro.re. 
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