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L. ELEGANS INCANTANS, Bolfe.—A. large-flowered form. Sepals and petals 

 delicate fawn, suffused with violet ; lip broad, the reflexed side lobes heavily- 

 tipped with rich purple, the front lobe large, deep magenta-purple. Blooms 

 in the autumn months. — Brazil. 



L. ELEGANS LEEANA, Williams. — This is a very lovely and distinct variety; 

 the pseudobulbs are thicker and more clavate than those of an ordinary Laelio- 

 Oattleya elegans. The flowers are 6J inches across, the sepals and petals being 

 of a pale rose, beautifully sufEusod at the margins with rosy-magenta, in the 

 same way as Laelio- Cattleya elegans Wolstenholmiae, and the lip is very large, 

 cut at the sides, 1^ inch across, the anterior part rosy-magenta of a very 

 rich hue, the throat white striped in the centre with magenta. It flowers 

 during the spring months. — Brazil. 



L. ELEGANS MEASURESIANA, Bolfe.—" A. very fine Laelia elegans with 

 sulphur-coloured sepals and petals, sepals washed outside with the lightest 

 brown-purple, leaving, however, innumerable light spots on their surface ; 

 petals bordered with purple at the top on both sides ; broad central lacinia of 

 the lip of the warmest darkest purple, as in the best Cattleya superha; disk 

 between the triangular side laciniae purple, side areas white, top of the angles 

 purple ; column white with some purple lines and streaks and spots " (H. G. 

 Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 209). 



L. ELEGANS MELANOCHITES, Hort. Measures.— This is a charming variety, 

 one of the prettiest forms of this plant. The sepals and petals are light purple, 

 the petals deeper coloured and broader than the sepals ; lip three-lobed, the 

 side lobes white, the recurved tips tinged with rose, front lobe round and 

 broad, rosy-purple. Blooms during the autumn months. — Brazil. 



L. ELEGANS MORRENIAN A, iioJ/e.— A very fine form, with flowers 6 inches 

 across ; sepals and petals magenta-rose, tinged with a shade of green in the 

 centre and at the base; lip rolled round the column where it is white, the 

 reflexed tips of the side lobes and the large undulate front lobe being intense 

 magenta-crimson, having a narrow marginal belt of lilac-mauve. Flowers 

 during the autumn months. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Oreldd Albuvi, vii. t. 331. 



L. ELEGANS MOSSIAE, Gower.—This is one of the very darkest flowered 

 varieties of Laelio-Cattleya elegans which we know. The flowers are large, 

 measuring 7 inches across ; sepals and petals intensely deep rich crimson- 

 purple throughout, freckled with a few reddish-crimson spots at the tips ; lip 

 deep crimson-lake, the same colour being continued round the front of the side 

 lobes. Blooms during the autumn months. — Brazil. 



L. ELEGANS NYLEPTHA, Bolfe. — A very handsome and distinct variety, 

 first flowered in the collection of B.. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham, who 

 possesses one of the most complete collections of the varieties of Laelio- Catiley a 

 elegans we have ever seen. The flowers are from 6 to 7 inches in diame- 

 ter ; the sepals are yellow faintly tinged with rose, and minutely spotted 

 towards the apex with purple ; this also occurs on the outside ; the petals are 



