THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
BOLLEA LALINDEI. 
ALTHOUGH not common in collections, the species of Bollea invariably 
command attention when seen in flower, on account of their remarkable 
shape, and frequently unusual colours. Photographs of the handsome 
Bollea Lalindei have been sent from Mrs. Brandt, of Zurich, one of which 
is here reproduced. The species is a native of Colombia, and was intro- 
duced by M. Lalinde, a resident in Medellin, through M. Patin. It first 
flowered in the collection of Messrs. James Veitch and Sons, of Chelsea, in 
1874, when it was described by Reichenbach (Gard. Chron., 1874, ii, p. 33), 
B. Patini, which was described by Reichenbach at the same time from 
dried materials sent by Patin (/.c., p. 34), has proved to be a 
Fic 49. BoLLEagLaALINDEI. 
form of the same species. It afterwards flowered in the collection 
of G. Herriott, Esq,, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, and was figured in 
the Gardeners’ Chronicle (1875, iii. pp. 8, 9, fig. 1), and Floral Magazine 
(n.s., t. 147). B. Lalindei was also figured in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 6331) from a plant which flowered with Mr. B. S. Williams, of Upper 
Holloway. It is nearly allied to B. ccelestis, another remarkable Colombian 
species too rarely met with in cultivation. The flowers are of a peculiar 
shade of mauve-purple, varying somewhat in depth of colour in different 
individuals, and the crest of the lip yellow. 
