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persed. In habit of growth it is nearest to Laelia purpurata. The sepals 

 and petals are blush white, the front lobe deep purple with a light margin. — 

 Brazil. 



Fig. — Beicheniaehia, 1. 1. 8. 



L. SCHILLERIANA IRRORATA, Rolfe. — An elegant species, whose stems 

 usually attain a height of 18 inches, and bear two or three leaves on the 

 summit (monophyllous — f. Rchb.). The flowers are racemose, measuring about 

 5 inches across, the ligulate acute sepals and the cuneate oblong slightly 

 undulated petals blush white ; the lip with the lateral lobes blush- white, the 

 rounded spreading ends tipped with rosy-pink, and the middle lobe rich 

 crimson shaded with purple. It makes a very fine subject for exhibition, 

 flowering in June and July, and is a plant no collection of Orchids 

 should lack. The finest variety of this plant which we have seen bloomed in 

 the rich collection of the late R. F. Ainsworth, Esq., M.D., at Lower Broughton, 

 Manchester, under the care of Mr. Mitchell. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Xenia OrcJi., 11. t. 115, fig. 1. 

 Syn. — Laelia irrorata. 



L. SCHILLERIANA IRRORATA GASKELLIANA, Bolfe.—A. handsome variety 

 described as follows : — " It is widely distinct from typical Scottiana, not in 

 colour only, but most remarkably in the shape of the lip. The dactyloid sepals 

 and petals are light lilac. The lip has a white mid-ai-ea between the lateral 

 laciniae. The tips of the angles and mid-line are lilac. The heart-shaped, semi- 

 oblong, wavy anterior lacinia has an exceedingly short nail, and the whole is of 

 the darkest, warmest purple, with scattered and still darker bars, spots, and 

 lines; thus making one think of Oattleya Mossiae and C. speciosissima" (H. Gr. 

 Eeiohenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, ii. p. 520). 



L. SCHILLERIANA IRRORATA SCOTTIANA, Bolfe.—A very fine large- 

 flowered high-coloured variety. The narrow acute sepals and narrowish acute 

 petals are of a light rose colour, and the lip is three-lobed, the centre lobe 

 brilliant crimson-magenta, and the throat white. It flowers in June. The 

 variety is named in honour of H. J. Scott, Esq., Queen's Quay, Belfast, by 

 whom it was flowered. — Brazil. 



L. SCHILLERIANA SPLENDENS, Hart— A splendid variety of L. ScUlleriana, 

 which grows to the same height, and bears on the top of the bulb two leaves 

 of a light green colour. The plants flower twice a year, and produce large 

 blossoms, of which the sepals and petals are light rose, veined with a deeper 

 colour, and the lip is large, of a beautiful magenta, the front part light rose, 

 and the throat yellow. It blooms in June and in autumn, and as it lasts several 

 weeks in perfection, it makes a fine exhibition plant. — Brazil. 



L. SCHILLERIANA STELZNERIANA, Rolfe.— This plant is allied to Laelia 

 elegans, which it resembles in growth, but is scarcely so robust. The flowers 

 are somewhat smaller than those of that plant, having pure white sepals and 

 petals, the latter much broader than the former, and the lip, the lobes of which 

 are unusually short, of a blush-white, the throat being yellowish-white, the 



