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The experiment has been twice repeated, and now the origin of L.-c. 
elegans has also been proved. Both hybrids are very variable, and of L.-c. 
elegans a large number of varieties have been described. A full account of 
them has already been given (O.R., i. pp. 235-238). 
It is interesting to note that Lelia purpurata and Cattleya Laagoldi 
were also discovered and sent home by De Vos, if not in the same 
importation as the hybrid, though both were described later. 
La@&LIA PURPURATA was figured and described by Lindley, in 1852 (Paxt. 
Fl. Gard., iii. p. 112, t. 96), the author remarking: ‘‘ One of the most striking 
novelties which has for a long time been seen was produced by Messrs. 
Backhouse, of York, at-one of the garden meetings of the Horticultural 
Society, under the name of a new Cattleya from the Island of St. 
Catherine’s, in Brazil: It had, in fact, much the appearance of Cattleya 
crispa, or of a white C. labiata, but the experienced eye of one of our most 
‘acute Orchidophilists suggested to him, at the first glance, that it was 
probably a Lelia related to L. Perrinii. And such it proved to be when 
the pollen masses were examined; they are eight, not four.’”’ The date of 
the meeting alluded to was June rath, 1852, and in the report of the 
meeting it is remarked: ‘‘ For ourselves, we have only to point to a most 
gloricus Lelia, from St. Catherine’s, in Brazil, called purpurata, exhibited 
_by Messrs. Backhouse, of York ”’ (Gard. Chron., 1852, p. 387). 
It afterwards appeared that this very plant was sent home from Santa 
Catherina, by De Vos, for in 1854, when Ch. Lemaire figured the species 
(Ill. Hort., i. Misc. pp. 53, 54, with fig.), he stated that, in order to render 
to Cesar the things that are Cesar’s, it was necessary to state that the 
honour of introducing the plant belonged to M. Ambroise Verschaffelt, 
_ who received it in 1847 from his intelligent collector, M. F. De Vos, and 
that the fact was known to Messrs. Backhouse when they exhibited the 
plant. M. Lemaire had previously described and figured it (Lem. Jara. 
Fleur., iii., t. 275), under the name of Cattleya Brysiana, but, as he 
explained, a month after Lindley, whose name he adopted in the later 
work. This plant at the time was stated to have been sent to M. 
- Verschaffelt, in 1850, from the Island of Santa Catherina. 
_CATTLEYA Leoprotpn, Versch., was described in 1854 (Lem. in IIl. 
Hort., i. Misc. p. 68), and afterwards figured (l.c., ii. t. 69), when it was 
said to have been introduced by M. Verschaffelt from Brazil, through his 
‘collector De Vos, who found it growing on the trunks of large trees in the 
‘Island of Santa Catherina. It is often known under the name of Cattleya 
-guttata var. Leopoldii, but we believe it to be constantly distinct from the 
‘plant originally described by Lindley as C. guttata, which has much smaller 
‘flowers, and a more a divided cee This aps is hai rarely seen in 
cultivation. «- : R.A.R. 
