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PL. CCCCXV. 
LAELIA x JUVENILIS stev. 
THE GRACEFUL LAELIA. 
LAELIA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 41. 
Laelia juvenilis, Hybrida inter Laelia Perrinii 9 et L. pumilam of artificiose producta. 
Laelia juvenilis BLEU. Fourn. des Orchidées, 1, p. 230. 
his is a charming hybrid to which has been given the dainty name of 
Laelia x juvenilis, which it well deserves on account of its graceful 
8 colouring. It is about intermediate between its two parents in the organs 
of vegetation, but its flowers are much like those of L. Perrinii, and if one were 
given the choice of these two species, it would be difficult to imagine a more 
remarkable product. The sepals and petals are white, lightly tinted and veined 
along the margin with very pale rosy lilac. The lip has the tube of nearly the same 
colour, but the front lobe, which has much of the shape of L. Perrinii, only less 
abrupt and more graceful, has a white disk and in front of this a large blotch of 
deep rosy carmine. 
Laelia Perrinii has already been utilised in another cross with L. crispa, the 
product being L. x Pilcheriana, a beautiful hybrid remarkable for the contrast 
between the colour of the sepals and petals, which are white or lightly tinted with 
pale rose, and the lip, which is of a brilliant reddish purple. It was L. x Pilche- 
viana, which, fertilised in its turn with L. cinnabarina, produced the beautiful 
L. x flammea, which is remarkable for the combination of its orange-yellow 
colour with purple. 
With regard to L. pumila, it does not appear to have hitherto given rise to 
artificial hybrids. This is no doubt explained by the small size of its flowers ; 
nevertheless this species has qualities which compensate for the defect, in the 
breadth and colour of its segments, and we shall be much surprised if it does not 
produce some beautiful offspring in the not distant future. 
L. X juvenilis is another of the hybrids raised by M. A. Bueu, of Paris, the 
hybridist who has produced the majority of the continental hybrids. The readers 
of the Lindenia have already been able to admire several very remarkable hybrids 
due to his skilful initiative. 
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