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L. TRIOPHTHALMA.— See Laelio-Cattleya tmophtualma. 



L. TURNERI. — See Laelio-Cattleya elegans Tukneei. 



L. VEITCHIANA.— See Laelio-Cattleya Veitcuiana. 



L. VIRENS, Lindl. — This old species is not a very showy kind, but is 

 nevertheless worthy of cultivation as a subject for hybridizing. The growth is 

 similar to that of Oaitleya Mossiae ; the flowers are produced several together 

 on a spike from the apex of the pseudobulb, and are white with the faintest 

 tinge of green when first opening. Flowers in winter. — Brazil. 



L. VITELLINA, O'Brien. — A hybrid, the parentage of which has not been 

 recorded, and which was raised in the collection of Baron Sir J. H. W. Schroder. 

 Mr. O'Brien describes it as follows : — " The supposition is, that L. liarpophylla 

 was one of the agents in its production, and the probability is that L. Perrinii 

 was the other, and most likely the seed-bearer. As evidence of that, we have 

 in L. vitellina an indication of the deflexed apex of the labellnm as seen in 

 L. Perrinii, and .the influence of the orange-coloured species, which has been 

 proved by these garden hybrids to be so potent in suppressing other colours 

 in the species in which they are crossed, seems to have failed to wholly obliterate 

 the dark purplish-crimson on the tip of the labellum of the other supposed 

 parent. I have not yet had an opportunity of examining the pollinia of the 

 new hybrid, and therefore cannot say how they stand with relation to true 

 Lcielia. The flowers of this beautiful novelty are orange, tinted Indian-yellow, 

 the base of the column and tip of the labellum tinged with light purple. The 

 , plant was awarded a first-class certificate at the Eoyal Horticultural Society, 

 March 14th." — Garden hybrid. 



Yia.—Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiii. p. 355, f. 53. 



L. WARNERII — See Laelio-Cattleta elegans Warnemi. 



L. WYATTIANA, Bclib.f. — -A lovely species, imported in a set of the short- 

 bulbed form of L. purpuraki, to which it is closely allied. The flowers are about 

 the size of Cattleya (Laelia) crispa, and of membranous texture ; the sepals and 

 petals are white, the latter very acute, and the lip, which is similar in shape to 

 that of Cattleya (Laelia) crispa, is sub-rhomboid, and undulated towards the 

 front, has the nerves on the disk dark purple, the side ones coloured only at 

 the base, the central ones coloured through their whole length ; the side lobes 

 are light yellow outside, the anterior lobe light purple. It flowers during the 

 autumn. This was first flowered by the late G. Nevile Wyatt, Esq., of Chelten- 

 ham, who had a large and choice collection of Orchids, which, since his death, 

 has been distributed. — Brazil. 



L. XANTHINA, Lindl. — A very distinct and pretty species, which is also 

 rather rare. The stems are clavate-f usiform, about a foot high, monophyllous, 

 the leaves oblong-lorate bluntish, and the scape four to six-flowered, issuing 

 from a linear-oblong compressed bract ; the flowers are 3 to 4 inches across, 

 the sepals and petals obloiig-ligulate undulated, with the sides rolled back, 

 yellow, more or less flushed with olive green, the lip cucullate, divided into 

 throe obtuse and shallow lobes at the ap^x, deep yellow with abroad front border 



