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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ARNOLDIANA RoLFE. 
Mt ARNOLD’S LAELIO-CATTLEYA. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Genus artificiale pro hybridis inter Cattleyam et Laeliam creatum. 
Laelio-Catileya RoL¥FE in Fourn. Linn, Soc., XXIV (1888), p. 168. — Ip., in Gard. Chron., 1889, pars 2, p. 78. 
Laelio-Cattleya >< Arnoldiana, Hybrida inter Laeliam purpuratam et Cattleyae labiatae varietatem producta. 
Pseudobulbi fusiformes, 6-8 poll. longi, monophylli. Folia lineari-oblonga, 12 poll. longa, 2 1/2 poll. lata. 
Flores 7 poll. diametro. Sepala anguste lanceolata, patentia. Petala multo latiora, deflexa, margine undulata. Labellum 
magnum, lobo medio lato expanso crispo-undulato. 
Laelio-Cattleya X Arnoldiana. ROLFE in Fourn. des Orch.. Ul, p. 134. 
Laelia X Arnoldiana Hort. Gard. Chron., 1891, pars 1, pp. 740, 742. — Yourn. of Hort., 1891, pars 1, 
Pp. 491, fig. 93. 
he magnificent hybrid which is the subject of the present plate was raised 
in the establishment of Messrs F. Sanper & Co., of St. Albans, from 
Laelia purpurata fertilised with the pollen of one of the varieties of 
Cattleya labiata, though which one has not been recorded. It flowered for the first 
time during the present year, and was exhibited at a meeting of the Royal 
Horticultural Society on June g th. last, when it was awarded both a First-class 
Certificate and a Silver-Gilt Flora Medal. The seed was sown in 1881, and thus 
it has taken ten years to reach the flowering stage. 
One of the plants has now passed into the collection of T. Statter, Esq., 
of Stand Hall, Whitifield, near Manchester, from which the annexed plate has 
been prepared. 
The plant is of vigorous habit, the five pseudobulbs on the one exhibited 
being from 6 to 8 inches long, narrowly fusiform and somewhat compressed in 
shape. The leaves are stout, of a bright shining green, and about a foot long 
by 27*/, inches in diameter. The flowers, which are of graceful shape and 
appearance, measure over seven inches across. The sepals are narrowly lanceolate, 
and of a delicate rosy-purple hue while the much broader petals, which are 
drooping or recurving at the tips, and beautifully undulate, are of a similar 
colour, with some slightly darker veins in the centre. The lip is very handsome; 
the broad expanded part, which is nearly three inches in diameter, is of an 
intense rich magenta-crimson, with still darker veins, and a paler, very undulate 
margin; the throat is of a pale golden bronze tint. It is undoubtedly a very 
handsome plant, and one of the finest yet raised. 
Laelia purpurata has been a popular plant with hybridists, and no wonder, 
for it has participated in the parentage of some of the handsomest hybrids which 
have yet appeared. There are three other hybrids raised between this species 
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