444 orchid-ghower's manual. 



May, June, and July, and lasts three weeks in perfection, if the flowers are kept 

 dry. — Brazil: Si. Catherine's, 



¥m.— Warner, Set Oreli. PL, i. t. 40 ; Paxton, Fl. Card., iii. t. 96 ; Pescatorea, t. 37 j 

 VIll. Bort., t. 83 ; Flore des Serres, tt. 1138-9 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 61 (_praetexta) ; Florist, 

 1859, 1. 153— f. Kchb. ; Gard. Chron., N.S., xiv. p. 45, f. 12 (flower regular) ; Id., xx. p. 530, 

 f . 90 ; Bevue liort. Beige, 1888,' p. 201 (plate) ; Lindenia, vi. t. 282 ; Beichenbachia, 2nd 

 ser., i. t. 25 ; Ve/tch's Alan. Orch. PL, ii. p. 80. 



L. PURPURATA ALBA, Veitcli. — A delicate variety with pure white sepals 

 and petals, lip also white veined with pale rose-colour. — Brazil. 

 Fig. — Lindenia, vl. t. 283. 



L. PURPURATA ALBO-LILACINA, Williams.— A. handsome light-coloured 

 variety. Sepals and petals of good form and substance, pure white ; lip deep 

 purple at the entrance to the throat, and with a large area of white in front, 

 faintly striped with delicate rosy-lilac ; throat yellow, striped with purple. 



L. PURPURATA ATRO-PURPUREA, Williams.— The darkest variety of L. 

 purpurata we have yet met with. The sepals and petals are of a deep rose 

 colour, the lip large and open, rich magenta-purple, this colour extending from 

 the point of the lip far into the throat, which is orange-colour veined with 

 dark purple. It was flowered by R. H. Measures, Esq., of Woodlands, 

 Streatham . — Brazil. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ix. t. 385 (ysx. fastuosa). 



L. PURPURATA AUROREA, Ec/i6. /.— This is a form with somewhat narrow 

 sepals and petals, white, streaked with flesh-colour ; lip very dark, curiously 

 streaked and veined. Flowers in spring and early summer. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Toscana d'Ortlc, 1886, t. 12. 



L. PURPURATA BLENHEIMENSIS, Williams.— A very elegant variety. 

 Sepals narrowly-lanceolate, rosy-lilac or blush, with darker streaks; petals 

 ovate, nfiuch broader than the sepals, deep rosy-purple, veined with very deep 

 purple ; lip deep crimson purple, paler at the tip where it is deep rose, veined 

 with purple. Blossoms in spring and early summer. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Albnm, viii. t. 346. 



L. PURPURATA BRYSIANA, Hort.—A fine, showy, and very distinct plant, a 

 variety that makes a fine contrast to the white form of L. purpurata. The 

 sepals and petals are of a beautiful light rose veined with a darker tint of the 

 same colour, and the front lobe of the lip is dark crimson. — Brazil. 



Fig.— iem. Jard. FL, tt. 275-6 ; L'lll. Hort., t. 134. 



Syn.— i. Bri 



L. PURPURATA LOWIANA, iJc/i6./.— This beautiful variety was described 

 as follows : — " The very large flowers have sepals and petals rose-coloured, as 

 in the L. purpurata aurorea ; the lip is of the very darkest, blackish mauve- 

 purple ; the light yellow at the baSe is nearly gone, and what is left is inter- 

 rupted by dark purple veins ; column purple at the top, with purple lines in 

 front. It is wonderfully grand" (H. G. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 

 1887, 3rd ser., i. p. 799). 



