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LAELIO-CATTLEYA x ELEGANS rote var. BROOMEANA soar. 
THE ELEGANT LAELIO-CATTLEYA, Mr. BROOME’S VARIETY. 
LAELIO-CATTLEYA. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. I, p. 25. 
Laelio-Cattleya X elegans, Hybridum naturale inter Laeliam purpuratam et Catileyam Leopoldii productum. Pseudo- 
bulbi elongati, teretes, mono- v. diphylli. Folia lineari-oblonga, coriacea. Spatha lineari-oblonga. Racemi pauciflori. 
Flores speciosi. Sepala oblongo-lanceolata, acuta. Petala sepalis latiora, elliptico-lanceolata, acuta. Labellum trilobum, 
lobis lateralibus rotundato-oblongis obtusis columnam involventibus, intermedio late rotundato v. transverse oblongo 
emarginato undulato, disco laeviusculo. Columna clavata. 
Laelio-Cattleya X elegans RoL¥E in Gard. Chron., 1889, pt. II, p. 78. — Ip. in Reichenbachia, ser. 2, vol. I, 
P- 43, t. 20 (var. blenheimensis). 
Cattleya elegans C. Morr. in Ann. de Gand, IV (1848), p. 93, t. 185. - Pescatorea, t. 23. — Bot. Mag., 
t. 4700. — Ill. Hort,, XI, t. 402. — Linpv. in Gard. Chron., 1853, p. 582. * 
Laelia elegans Reus. F. in Orro & Dieter. Allg. Gartenz., XXII (1855), p. 242. — De Puypt, Orch., t. 21. 
Bletia elegans Reus. ¥. in Walp. Ann., VI, p. 427. 
Laelia Brysiana Lem. in Ill, Hort., IV (1857), t. 134. 
Laelia Turneri Warn. Sel. Orch., ser. I, t. 12. 
Var. Broomeana, Sepala et petala roseo-purpurea. Labellum atropurpureum, basi pallidum. 
Var. Broomeana Hort. 
Laelia elegans var. Broomeana O'BRIEN in Gard. Chron., 1890, pt. II, p. 214. — Warn. & WILL. Orchid 
Album, IX, t. 413. 
aelto-Cattleya x elegans, usually known in gardens as Laelia elegans, is 
7 now generally admitted to be a natural hybrid between Laelia purpurata 
j and Cattleya Leopoldii, and is found where these two species grow 
eee It was originally discovered in 1847, in the island of Santa Catherina, 
South Brazil, by Devos, who sent it to the establishment of the late M. AMBROISE 
Wien of Ghent, where it flowered in the following year. Its hybrid 
origin was not then suspected, and it was described under the name of Cattleya 
elegans, by the late Cuartes Morren. Linpiey soon afterwards pointed out the 
presence of four small additional pollen masses, and RetcHensacn transferred 
the plant to Laelia. It is a native of the island of Santa Catherina, and of the 
opposite coast of South Brazil. 
Like all hybrids it has proved extremely variable, and a large number of 
forms have received distinctive names. The one here figured appeared in the 
collection of JoserpH Broome, Esq., of Llandudno, to whom it is appropriately 
dedicated and has been pronounced to be the most brilliant variety which has 
yet appeared. The sepals and petals are of a beautiful rose-purple, with a few 
darker spots on the disc, while the lip is of an intense glowing purplish crimson, 
except the lower half of the tube, which is sulphur-white veined with light purple. 
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