We are truly pleased to be able to offer this charming species. It 
is a plant for the florist, and will make a fine exhibition 
plant. 
We have searched for this Orchid for the last twenty years, and at 
length, as with Cattleya labiata, Cypripedium Mastersianum, Dendrobi- 
um Phalaenopsis Schroderianutn, Cattleya Percivaliana, several Den- 
drobes which were lost, and white Laelia anceps varieties, etc., success 
has crowned our efforts, and we shall now prosecute our search for 
Cypripedium Fairieanum with renewed hope and vigor. 
The Brazilian Government invited us to send our man to join a 
party sent out to explore and report on the district of 500 square miles, 
absolutely unsearched. Our collector was prevented, but started on 
our account, and entered and searched the forests, 600 miles from Rio, 
and we were rewarded by the re-discovery of an Orchid we had always 
looked for to be in the direction traversed. 
Like all the Brazilian Cattleyas it will no doubt be found a most 
free-flowering kind, and the fact of it growing north of the old Cattleya 
labiata and near it proves that its culture will be most easy. 
The Gardeners' Chronicle, July 1, 1899, page 2, says of this beautiful 
Orchid : 
L^XIA JOKGHEANA. 
" This charming Orchid has always been a mysterious plant, for 
although a great desire to possess it has been from time to time revived 
by the flowering of the now historical specimen in Baron Schroder's 
collection, it has persistently eluded the vigilance of the Orchid 
collector, whose energies have been directed to obtaining it in equally 
as great a degree as was for years maintained in hunting after the true 
autumn-flowering Cattleya labiata. That its advent would give a fresh 
start to the hybridist is well shown by the lovely and unique Laslio- 
Cattleya x Baroness Schroder raised from it, and Cattleya Trianae in 
Baron Schroder's collection. 
" Laelia Jongheana was sent from Southern Brazil about the year 1854 
by Libon, to M. de Jonghe, of Brussels, and unfortunately soon dis- 
appeared from cultivation, nothing more being heard of it until 1872, 
when a plant of it flowered with MM. Thibaut and Keteleer, near Paris, 
and which furnished material for the late Professor Reichenbach's 
enthusiastic description and illustration in the Gardeners Chronicle, 
March 30, 1872, page 425. It is a grand and distinct species, with 
brilliant amethyst-rose or bright pink flowers, the seven elevated, 
crimped, rich orange-colored keels on the lip rendering it easily 
recognizable." 
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624 Selected plant 
629 Selected plant 
625 do 
630 do 
626 do 
631 do 
627 do 
632 do 
628 do 
633 do 
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