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Lelia majalis is degraded, Cattleya Mossia and labiata have—according to 
my taste at least—a very dangerous rival. Imagine shining wood (sic), 
small bulbs of darkest green, very shining, exceedingly thick, quite a leaf- 
beauty; the flower as in Lzelia majalis, but of the most brilliant amethyst 
colour, as bright as that of Vanda teres itself—the sepals narrow, the petals 
very broad, a little crisp, the lip with pallid amethyst side laciniae—beautifully 
crisp and denticulate ; seven high keels of darkest orange in the centre of 
the lip; longer than the arched whitish column, and all veins of side 
lacinie with radiating keels inside. The wonderful beauty of this grand 
flower is based on its purest colours, and it makes the beholder think of that 
little gem, Dendrobi D i , by the combination of amethyst, 
yellow, and white. The violaceo-amethyst border of the wonderfully wavy 
and denticulate lip adds the crowning beauty. 
The plant has just flowered with MM. Thibaut & Keteleer, at Paris. I 
have to thank M. Luddemann for it, that gentleman having sent it. ‘ 
I am informed that it was flowered some years ago, and had been sent to 
me, but I never received it. Such a gem would not have been left 
unpublished. The merit of its introduction is due to the excellent M. de 
Jonghe, of Brussels. . . . It was discovered by his ill-fated traveller, 
poor Libon, who fell a victim to his zeal in the Brazils. They both belonged 
to the most ardent lovers of plants. If I mlstake not, I remember to have 
seen the plant in 1856 with M. de Jonge. Libon praised it very highly, and 
named it Brassavola Jonghei. Thus the plant may bear the name of M. de 
Jonghe, in accordance with the wish of his young friend and zealous 
collector, the late M. Libon, and my own. May M. de Jonghe look out 
how many many Orchids would be capable to beat that one dedicated to 
him.” (Gard. Chron., 1872, p. 425, fig. 128.) 
In the following year it flowered in the establishment of Messrs. James 
Veitch & Sons, of Chelsea, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine 
(t. 6038). A year later a figure of the plant which flowered wiley: 
Luddemann was given in the Revue Horticole (1873, p- 291, with plate), and 
in 1875 another appeared in the Floral Magazine (n.s., t. 177). These show 
the plant to have a dwarf stout habit, both bulbs and leaves being stout, 
oblong, and dark green in colour, while the flowers measure from four to 
five inches across. The sepals, petals, and base of the lip are brilliant «id 
amethyst purple, and the throat and centre, including the fine soe 
keels, yellow. In front of this the colour passes into yellowish white, w hi e 
the crisped margin is more or less suffused with purple ; not, however, nerd 
a hard dark line, as shewn in the Gardeners’ Chronicle figure, but gradually 
_ Shading off into the white of the centre. 2 
~ Messrs. Veitch remarked in 1887 that it was now fortunately represented 
: bee e like 
1 several British collections, usually flowering in March, and we should li 
