56 THE ORCHID REVIEW. | MARCH, 197. 
55 BOLLEA LALINDEI. Eee 
HE Bolleas and Pescatoreas are not grown to the extent that their 
c merits deserve, and probably one reason is that their culture is not 
easy; the absence of pseubobulbs, and their habit of growing almost 
continuously, and producing their remarkable flowers at somewhat irregular 
intervals, making them somewhat exceptional. They can, however, be 
grown in a shady position in the warm Intermediate house, care being 
taken with the watering, for the compost should not be allowed to become 
Fig. 8. BoLLeA LALINDEI. 
dry, or the plants invariably suffer. The genus Bollea is remarkable for 
the enormously dilated column, forming a cavity which is almost filled with 
the very broad, channelled crest, as shown in the annexed figure of B. 
Lalindei, Rchb. f., a Colombian species introduced by M. Lalinde, a resident 
of Mendellin, after whom it is named. It flowered with Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, at Chelsea, in 1874, and was described by Reichenbach 
(Gard. Chron., 1874, li. p. 33), and was afterwards figured at t. 6331 of the 
Botanical Magazine. The flowers are mauve-purple in colour, with a yellow 
crest to the lip. It is nearly allied to B. ccelestis, Rchb. f., another 
Colombian species that is now very rarely seen in cultivation, and which is 
remarkable for the deep violet-blue colour of its flowers. 
