442 orchid-gkowek's manual. 



L. PERRINII, Lindl. — A truly beautiful species, resembling a Cattleya in 

 growth and in flower. The stems are club-shaped, scarcely a foot in height, 

 with large solitary oblong-obtuse dark green leaves, and two-flowered peduncles 

 from compressed purplish-green spathes. The flowers are about 6 inches across ; 

 the sepals and broader petals light magenta-rose, the three-lobed lip with the 

 front portion intensely rich purple-crimson, which is continued round the front 

 edges of the lateral lobes, the throat white, and the exterior of the side lobes 

 pale rosy-lilac veined with deeper rose. It blooms in October and November, 

 and continues in good condition for a couple of weeks. There are two varieties 

 of this plant; one producing much larger and darker-coloured flowers, and 

 being stronger in growth than the other. — Brazil. 



FiG.—Bot. Rrg., 18.S8, t. 2 : Bot. iMarj., t. 3711 ; Ordtid Album, ii. t. CO ; Paxtm, 

 Mag. Bot., xiii. p. 5, with tab. ; Hart, Farad.., i. 1. 10 ; HooK, First Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 20. 

 Syn. — Cattleya Perrinii ; C. intermedia angustifolia. 



L. PERRINII ALBA, O'Brien. — A beautiful variety with pure snow-white 

 flowers without any purple or yellow markings. It was flowered by K. H. 

 Measures, Esq., of Streatham. 



L. PERRINII IRRORATA, Bdib. /.—A delicately-coloured yet attractive 

 variety, with the general characters of the type, but differing in the colour of 

 its charming flowers ; the sepals and petals are of the palest rose colour, and 

 the lip is nearly white, its disk, however, being of a pale yellow colour, and its 

 apex of a light purple. — Brazil. 



L. PERRINII NIVEA, Bclib. /.—A very chaste and beautiful form, first 

 flowered in this country by ourselves, and still very rare. It resembles the 

 type in every respect saving the colour of the flowers, which is pure white, 

 with the exception of the lip, which is pale rosy-pink in front, and having a 

 slight tinge of yellow in the throat. It blossoms during October and November, 

 and lasts about two weeks in perfection.— SraziZ. 



Fig.— Oto7m(Z Alljum, iv. t. 181 ; Floral Mag., 2nd spr., t. 429. 



L. PHILBRICKIANA — See Laelio-Cattleya Piiilbrickiana. 



L. PILCHERIANA, Bominy et lichh. /.—This fine hybrid was obtained in 

 Messrs. Yeitch's nursery by Mr. Dominy, between L. Perrinii and Cattleya 

 crispa. The flowers are larger than those of the latter, the sepals oblong 

 ligulate acute, the petals broader oblong acute, both of a beautiful French white ; 

 the lip is narrow, rolled round the column, three-lobed, the disk whitish-yellow 

 with deep purplish veins, the anterior part very much crisped and toothed, 

 pointed, deep purple with a white margin. Professor Reichenbach, in the 

 Gardeners' Chronicle, 1868, p. 815, describes one of these hybrids as having rosy- 

 lake flowers, so that doubtless the different seedlings vary. — Garrfem hybrid. 



Yia.— Floral Mag., t. 340. 



L. PILCHERIANA LILACINA, Bchh.f.—A variety with smaller flowers than 

 those of the type, with "the mid lobe of the lip blunter, the side lobes a little 

 less blunt." 



L. PINELLI!. — See Cattleya ptjmila. 



