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inches across, the sepals and petals are blush-white, with the throat yellowish- 

 purple ; the lip rich crimson. It blossoms in June and July, and will last in 

 perfection for three or four weeks. This very rare variety is one of the finest 

 of its class, and also a fine exhibition plant. — Brazil. 



Fid.— 1Varne7; Sel. OreJi. PL, iii. t. 1. 



Syjs'. — Laclia elegans Warneri ; L. Warner i. 



L. ELEGANS WOLSTENHOLMIAE.— See L. Sciiillekiana Wolstenholmiae. 



L. EUMAEA, BoH. Feiic/t.— This hybrid was raised by Messrs. Yeitch, and 

 exhibited by them at the Royal Horticultural Society on October 14th, 1893. 

 It is the result of a cross between Laelia majalis and Catileya Trianae. The 

 petals are broad, and like the sepals, of a pale rose magenta ; lip crimson 

 purple at the tip ; throat yellow, veined with orange-yellow, and bordered by a 

 white area. — Garden hybrid. 



L. EUSPATHA — See L. Schillbeiana euspatiia. 



L. EXIMEA, Hurt. — Another of the series of hybrids raised from Laelia pur- 

 purata crossed with Cattleya. The present subject is a cross between Laelia 

 purpurata and Cattleya Wamerii, and was raised by Mr. Seden in Messrs. 

 Veitch & Sons' establishment. The flowers much resemble those of Laelia 

 purpurata. The sepals and petals are of a pleasing rosy-purple ; the lip mostly 

 resembles in form Cattleya Warnerii, the colouring being intermediate between 

 the two parents, of a bright rosy-purple ; the anterior portion being much 

 darker ; throat orange-yellow. — Garden hybrid. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ix. t. 38G. 



L. HIPPOLYTA, Hort. Veitch. — A lovely hybrid raised by Messrs. J. Veitch 

 & Sons, between Cattleya Mossiae and Laelia cinnabarina. The flowers measure 

 5 inches from tip to tip ; sepals narrow, petals 1 inch broad, both of a pleasing 

 buff colour ; the lip is partially closed, suffused with crimson at the tip and 

 throat. — Garden hybrid. 



Fia.—Journ. of Hort., 1890, xx. p. 303, f. 38. 



L. HORNIANA, Bchb.f. — "A hybrid hetweeu Laelia purpurata andiy. elegans, 

 the latter being the pollen parent — a cross effected by Mr. Ferdinand Horn, the 

 Orchid grower of Baron Nathaniel von Rothschild, Hohewarte, near Vienna. 

 The bulbs are said to be nearly like those of Laelia purpurata, bnt broader, 

 flatter, and shorter ; the flower is of a very strong substance, white, sepals 

 and narrow petals lanceolate, acute ; lip most distinctly tri-lobed, side lobes 

 ol)tuse-angled, mid lobe protruded, retuse ; the basilar part is yellow, and 

 there are some purple lines on the centre of the disk ; the lateral lobes and 

 the central lobe have a fine mauve tint over the good purple, and a thin white 

 border, whilst the centre of the anterior lobe has a projecting white space as 

 in Laelia purpurata praetexta. It is a lovely thing, and is dedicated to its 

 enthusiastic cultivator " (H. Gr. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 

 1883, iii. p. 770). — Garden hybrid. 



