LAELIA. 435 



magenta, the throat yellowish-white, with numerous deep purple keels. A very 



free-flowering species, which blossoms at the time it is making its young growth 



from the axil of the leaf, and lasts for three or four weeks in perfection. We 



find it does well in the Odontoglossum house with cool treatment. It is named 



in honour of the late J. Day, Esq., of Tottenham. — Brazil. 



Fm.—Oi-nhid Album,, iii. t. 132; Floml Hag ., 2nd sev ., t. 2i9 ; Gartenflom, 1S90, 

 1. 1319. ' J , , 



Syn. — L.pumlla JOayana. 



L. OAYANA ALBA, Williams. — A very distinct form difEering from the type in 

 having white sepals and petals ; lip white, veined with mauve-purple, darker than 

 in the type. It was first flowered by the late Mr. "Ward, of Southampton, in 1886. 



L. DOMINIANA — See Laelio-Cattleya Dominiana. 



L. DORMANIANA, Rclib. f. — A fine Laelia, supposed to be a natural hybrid 

 between Gattleya bicolor and Laelia pumila. It has thin slender terete sulcate 

 stems, bearing one or two leaves, which are cuneate oblong-ligulate, and two- to 

 five-flowered peduncles. The flowers, which are as large as those of 0. superba, 

 are very distinct in form ; the sepals and petals are olive-green, marbled outside 

 with a light vinous purple ; the odd sepal and the petals are prettily decorated 

 with numerous dark port wine coloured spots round the margin ; the front lobe 

 of the lip is of a bright purplish crimson, the lateral lobes rosy crimson, distinctly 

 veined with purplish crimson. It flowers in December and January, and probably 

 at other seasons, as it is very free-blooming. — Brazil. 

 Fig. — OrcJUd Album, ix. t. 401. 



L. ELEGANS — See Laelio-Oaitleya elegans. 



L. EUSPATHA — See Laelio-Cattleya Schilleriana etjspatha. 



L. EUTERPE, Bolfe. — This is a cross between Gattleya {Laelia) crispa and 

 L. Dayana, exhibited by Thomas Statter, Esq., of Manchester, before the Royal 

 Horticultural Society at the Drill Hall on October 24th, 1893. In growth it 

 somewhat resembles L. Dayana. Flowers 3J inches across ; sepals and petals of 

 a bright rosy-lilac; lip somewhat three-lobed, front-lobe crisped, crimson-purple, 

 with a little white variegation, and veined with a deeper tint of the same colour. 

 Elowers in autumn. Raised by Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons. — Garden hybrid. 



L. EXONIENSIS See Gattleya exoxiensis. 



L. EYERMANIANA, Rchb.f. — An interesting novelty, supposed to be a natural 

 hybrid between L. majalis and L. autumnalis, having been imported in a batch 

 of the first-named. The peduncle is stated "to bear four flowers equal in size 

 to an average flower of L. Oouldiana. The sepals and petals are of a lovely rose- 

 purple, with a green knob outside at the acute apex of the sepals ; the petals are 

 cuneate-oblong, blunt ; lip tri-fid ; side laciniae oblong, shorter than the rounded 

 somewhat wavy mid laciniae, coloured white, border rose ; there are two keels, 

 with a third one in the middle from the base to the centre, whitish, washed with 

 purple, and with some purple spots, suddenly constricted into three approximate 

 yellow keels on the disk." Imported by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who state 

 that the smell of the flower is similar to that of Orchis coriophora. — Mexico. 



Fia.—Gard. Chron., 3rd S3r., 1883, iv. p. 109, f. 12. 



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