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VARIETIES OF LAELIA PURPURATA. 
Under an anterior plate (282) the principal variations to which Laelia 
purpurata is subject were mentioned, and we may now proceed to enumerate 
the varieties which hâve been described or figured, with their characters, and 
references to the Works in which they appeared. 
VAR. ALBA, Gard. Chron., 1869, p. 561; Lindenia , t. 283. — Sepals and 
petals pure white, lip faintly tinted and veined with pale rose. 
VAR. ATROPURPUREA Williams, Or ch. Gr. Man., ed. 6, p. 636. — 
Sepals and petals deep rose colour, lip magenta-purple, the throat orange, veined 
with dark purple. 
VAR. AUROREA Rchb. f. in Bonplandia , IV, p. 328 ; Bull. soc. Tosc. di 
Ortie., XI, p. 297, t. 12. Bletia purpurata var. Aurorea, Rchb. f., Xen. Orch., 
II, p. 53. — Sepals and petals pale lilac-blush, slightly veined with rosy-lilac, 
lip nearly normal. 
VAR. BLENHEIMENSIS Williams, Orchid Album, VIII, t. 346. — Sepals 
blush-rose, streaked with rose-purple, petals rose-purple, lip with a small white 
area at apex. 
VAR. LOWIANA Rchb. f., in Gard. Chron., 1888, pt. I, p. 799. — Sepals 
and petals rose-coloured, lip of the darkest blackest mauve-purple, with very 
little yellow on the dise. 
VAR. “ BROOMAN WHITE’S VARIETY * Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 
1888, pt. I, p. 681. — Disc of lip orange instead of yellow, sepals and petals 
narrower than in the variety Williamsii, which it otherwise. much resembles. 
VAR. NELISII Verschaffelt in III. Hort., XV, t. 569; Gard. Chron., 
1869, p. 136. — This is figured with the sepals blush-white in front, but rose- 
coloured behind, the petals white with a rose-coloured mid-nerve, and the lip 
normal in character. 
VAR. PALLIDA Rchb. f. Xen. Orch., II, p. 53 (in note). Bletia pvirpur ata 
var. pallida, Rchb. f., I. c. — Sepals and petals white, lip very pale. 
VAR. PRAETEXTA Rchb. f. in Otto et Dietr. Allg. Gartenz., XXIII, 
p. 241 ; id., Xen. Orch., I, p. 175, t. 61. Bletia purpurata var. praetexta Rchb. f. 
in Walp. Ann., VI, p. 431. —- Differs from the type in having a clear white 
area at the apex of the lip. 
VAR. ROSEA Regel, Gartenflora, XXI, p. 225, t. 730. — Sepals and petals 
light rose, with somewhat darker nerves. Lip as in type. 
VAR. RUSSELLIANA Williams Orchid Album, VI, t. 269. L. Russelliana 
Williams, Orch. Gr. Man., ed. 6, p. 366. — Sepals white suffused with lilac, 
petals a little darker and streaked with darker lines towards apex, lip rosy-lilac 
with rosy-purple veins and paler margin. 
(To be continued on p. 50.) 
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