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Bb, COCO, 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ELEGANS sore var. LEUCOTATA sorr. 
THE ELEGANT LAELIO-CATTLEYA, WHITE VARIETY. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. II, p. 25. 
Laelio-Cattleya elegans. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. IV, p. 25. 
Var. leucotata. Varietas floribus candidus. 
aelio-Cattleya x elegans, or Laelia x elegans, as it is customary to call it 
in collections, is extremely variable as regards colour. We could easily 
enumerate twenty described varieties which show quite appreciable dif- 
ferences. It is therefore the more curious that no pure white variety has previously 
made its appearance. 
There exists, however, a variety called alba, but the lip is deep amethyst- 
purple, though the sepals and petals are white. 
It is a curious fact that although the forms which are the most common in 
cultivation have white segments, or are but slightly suffused with rose, the majo- 
rity of the distinct varieties which have appeared are characterised by a more or 
less dark tint, but none up to the present has shown a variation to pure white. 
This blank has now been filled up, and we may congratulate ourselves, for 
the form which we now figure is very beautiful, and white varieties are always 
particularly choice. 
The plant which served as the model for our plate flowered in 1893, among 
importations of L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE, whence it passed into the collec- 
tion of R. H. Measures, Esq., one of the most eminent of English Orchidists. 
It has the sepals and petals entirely white, also the lip, though the front lobe 
of this organ bears a feeble trace of pale rose. 
The Lindenia has already published remarkable varieties of this beautiful 
natural hybrid, notably the rich L.-C. x elegans Broomeana, with flowers entirely 
crimson-purple. The new form which we publish to-day admirably completes 
this superb series, and is worthy to be compared with its predecessors. 
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