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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x CAUWENBERGHEI . LIND, 
M. VAN CAUWENBERGHE’S LAELIO-CATTLEYA. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., IL, p. 25. 
Laelio-cattleya Cauwenberghei L, LInD., supra. 
+ ecent importations, and especially those of the last two or three years, 
| have revealed in certain Brazilian species which are already celebrated 
= some further and very beautiful variations. 
This has been particularly the case with Laelia purpurata and L. or Laelio- 
cattleya x elegans, which have revealed varieties so rich and numerous that the 
amateur is enbarrassed to know which to admire most. 
Laelio-cattleya x elegans has undoubtedly caused hybridists to experiment 
with Laelia purpurata, one of the most splendid among Orchids with large 
flowers, and also one of those which best stamps its character upon its descen- 
dants. At the same time it serves to enhance the value of another less brilliant 
group, that of Cattleya guttata, whose characters are well apparent in certain 
forms of the natural hybrid of which we have spoken. 
Laelio-catileya x Cauwenberghei certainly belongs to the same group, but is 
distinguished by its size and clear colour, tinted with yellow, of the floral seg- 
ments. Although its parents are not exactly known, we have little hesitation in 
assigning its origin to a cross between Cattleya granulosa and Laelia purpurata. 
It resembles the former species by the form and strong substance of its sepals 
and petals, their ground colour yellow lightly suffused with an olive tint, set off 
with purple dots, the breadth of the extremity of the petals and the light undu- 
lation of the margins, and lastly by the form of the front lobe of the lip, whose 
colour however is warmer and richer and its size larger. 
As we have said above, we have not found a form approaching it among 
forms of Laelio-catileya x elegans, whose limits are moreover somewhat uncertain. 
L.-c. x elegans Nyleptha, which flowered some yars ago, presents some of the 
same tendencies, if we may judge by the descriptions which have been given, but 
none, to our knowledge, has this ample form, this imposing and graceful colour. 
L.-c. x Cauwenberghei flowered for the first time in the houses of L’Horti- 
CULTURE INTERNATIONALE, Brussels, in 1893. It is dedicated to one of the foremen 
of this establishment, who has already completed twenty years of loyal service 
with us. IB Ue 
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