OcTORER, 1909.] THE ORCHID REVIEW, 305 
LAZLIA CRISPA. 
THIs fine old species is now flowering freely in some of our collections, and 
is one of the parents of several very beautiful Leeliocattleyas, as L.-c. 
exoniensis, Nysa, Pallas, and over a dozen others. It was introduced to 
cultivation as long ago as 1826, in which year it was sent from Rio de 
Janeiro to the Horticultural Saciety of London by Sir Henry Chamberlain, 
It flowered for the first time in Europe in the Society’s garden at Chiswick 
in August of the following year, and shortly afterwards was described and 
figured by Lindley under the name of Cattleya crispa (Bot. Reg., t. 1172). 
It is a true Lelia, however, having eight pollinia, and was referred to that 
ric. 23. L ELIA CRISPA. 
genus by Reichenbach, in 1853 (Fl. des Serres, ix. p. 102). It grows on the 
Organ Mountains, according to M. Forget, in touch with L. Dayana, L. 
pumila, L. Perrinii, Cattleya Dormaniana, C. bicolor, and C. velutina, he 
having collected all of them at Novo Friburgo at the same time. He 
remarks: ‘‘ They are cool temperate growers, that is to say, that immediately 
the sun sets one feels quite chilly in this part of the Organ Mountains.” It 
is also a native of the States of Sao Paulo and Minas Geraes, in the latter, 
according to Messrs. Veitch, in the southern parts of the province, at an 
elevation of 2,500 to 3,500 feet. 
