INDEX TO PLATES.
PLATE ADA AURANTIACA, Lindley[53] CATASETUM CHRISTYANUM, Rchb. f.[83] CATTLEYA ACLANDIÆ, Lindley[69] CATTLEYA CRISPA BUCHANANIANA, Williams & Moore[81] CATTLEYA DOWIANA AUREA, Williams & Moore[84] CATTLEYA LABIATA, Lindley[88] CATTLEYA SCHOFIELDIANA, Rchb. f.[93] CŒLIA BELLA, Rchb. f.[51] CŒLOGYNE CRISTATA ALBA, Moore[54] CŒLOGYNE PANDURATA, Lindley[63] COMPARETTIA MACROPLECTRON, Rchb. f. et Triana[65] CYPRIPEDIUM FAIRRIEANUM, Lindley[70] CYPRIPEDIUM MEIRAX, Rchb. f.[95] CYPRIPEDIUM PARISHII, Rchb. f.[86] DENDROBIUM FINDLEYANUM, Parish & Rchb. f.[92] EPIDENDRUM WALLISII, Rchb. f.[74] EULOPHIA GUINEENSIS PURPURATA, Rchb. f.[89] LÆLIA ANCEPS, Lindley[75] LÆLIA AUTUMNALIS ATRORUBENS, Backhouse[49] LÆLIA PERRINII, Lindley[60] MASDEVALLIA DAVISII, Rchb. f.[76] MASDEVALLIA IGNEA, Rchb. f.[62] MILTONIA REGNELLI PURPUREA, Hort. Veitch[72] ODONTOGLOSSUM ALEXANDRÆ GUTTATUM, Hooker fil.[94] ODONTOGLOSSUM CORADINEI, Rchb. f.[90] ODONTOGLOSSUM CRISTATELLUM, Rchb. f.[66] ODONTOGLOSSUM GRANDE, Lindley[79] ODONTOGLOSSUM HEBRAICUM LINEOLIGERUM, Rchb. f.[85] ODONTOGLOSSUM LONDESBOROUGHIANUM, Rchb. f.[82] ODONTOGLOSSUM MACULATUM, Lindley[52] ODONTOGLOSSUM MADRENSE, Rchb. f.[71] ODONTOGLOSSUM PESCATOREI VEITCHIANUM, Rchb. f.[68] ODONTOGLOSSUM ROEZLII, Rchb. f.[64] ODONTOGLOSSUM TRIUMPHANS, Rchb. f.[58] ONCIDIUM PHALÆNOPSIS. Lind. et Rchb. f.[96] PESCATOREA LEHMANNI, Rchb. f.[57] PHAIUS TUBERCULOSUS, Blume[91] PHALÆNOPSIS MARIÆ, Burbidge[80] See Note under [Plate 87]. SACCOLABIUM GIGANTEUM, Lindley[56] SCUTICARIA STEELII, Lindley[55] THUNIA BENSONIÆ, Hooker fil.[67] VANDA HOOKERIANA, Rchb. f.[73] VANDA PARISHII MARRIOTTIANA, Rchb. f.[61] VANDA ROXBURGHII, R. Brown[59] VANDA TRICOLOR, Lindley[77] VANDA TRICOLOR PLANILABRIS, Lindley[87] ZYGOPETALUM CLAYII, Rchb. f.[50] ZYGOPETALUM ROSTRATUM, Hooker[78]
INDEX TO NOTES AND SYNONYMS.
UNDER PLATE Aërides Lobbii Ainsworthii, Dr. Ainsworth’s[53] Bifrenaria bella, Lemaire[51] Bletia anceps, Rchb. f.[75] Bletia Perrinii, Rchb. f.[60] Bletia tuberculosa, Sprengel[91] Bothriochilus bellus, Lemaire[51] Cattleya aurea, Mr. Percival’s[70], [84] Cattleya gigas burfordiensis, Sir T. Lawrence’s[50] Cattleya labiata, Mr. Gaskell’s[75] Cattleya Mossiæ, Mr. De Barry Crawshay’s[93] Cattleya Perrinii, Lindley[60] Cattleya Skinneri oculata, Mr. Hardy’s[94] Cattleya superba, Mr. Schneider’s[64] Cattleya Trianæ alba, Mr. E. Wright’s[82] Cattleya Trianæ Russelliana, Baron Schröder’s[83] Cattleya virginalis, Mr. Percival’s[64] Cattleya Warneri, Mr. Southgate’s[51] Cattleyas, high-priced[94] Cœlogyne cristata hololeuca, Rchb. f.[54] Cymbidium tesselloides, Roxb.[59] Cypripedium Parishii, Mr. A. Paul’s[70] Dendrobium Dearei, Sir T. Lawrence’s[93] Disa grandiflora superba, Mr. Heywood’s[58] Dodgson, Richard Barton, Esq., death of[52] Epidendrum labiatum, Rchb. f.[88] Lælia superbiens, Mr. A. H. Smee’s[83] Limodorum tuberculosum, Du Petit-Thouars[91] Maxillaria Steelii, Hooker[55] Mesospinidium aurantiacum, Rchb. f.[53] Odontoglossum Alexandræ, Mr. Buchan’s fine variety of[68] Odontoglossum coronarium miniatum, Lord Rendlesham’s[67] Odontoglossum grande, Mr. Walker’s[72] Odontoglossum Jenningsianum, Mr. R. Smith’s[68] Odontoglossum Lehmanni, F. C. Lehmann in litt.[66] Odontoglossum lyroglossum, Mr. Harvey’s[87] Odontoglossum maxillare, Hook. f., non Lindley[71] Odontoglossum triumphans, Mr. Gordon’s[89] Oncidium Phalænopsis, Mr. E. Salt’s[69] Orchids at Bickley[60], [64] Orchids at Brentham Park, Stirling[65] Orchids at Chislehurst[55] Orchids at the Edinburgh Horticultural Exhibition, September, 1882[62] Orchids at Fallowfield[54] Orchids at the Manchester Exhibition, May, 1882[49] Orchids at New-Hall-Hey[50] Orchids at Pickering Lodge, Timperley[82] Orchids at Sudbury House, Hammersmith[92] Orchids at The Kilns, Falkirk[66] Orchids at Woolton Wood, Liverpool[80] Orchids in France (Ferrières)[63] Orchids in France (Gouville)[61] Orchids, Baron Alphonse de Rothschild’s[63] Orchids, Comte de Germiny’s[61] Orchids, Lord Rendlesham’s[94] Orchids, Mr. Lee’s (Downside)[71] Orchids, effects of Fog on[76] Orchids for the Drawing-room[79] Orchids, watering[57], [59] Phaius Bensoniæ, Hemsley[67] Phaius tuberculosus, Baron Schröder’s[81] Phaius tuberculosus, Sir T. Lawrence’s[81] Phalænopsis Mariæ, Burbidge[87] Vanda densiflora, Lindley[56] Vanda suaveolens, Blume[77] Vanda tessellata, Lodd.[59] Vanda tesselloides, Rchb. f.[59] Vanda tricolor, continuation[78] Vandas flowering in a small state[74] Vandas, Mr. Lee’s (Downside)[90] Zygopetalon Lehmanni, Rchb. f.[57] Zygosepalon rostratum, Rchb. f.[78]
PL. 49. LÆLIA AUTUMNALIS ATRORUBENS.
LÆLIA AUTUMNALIS ATRORUBENS.
[[Plate 49].]
Native of Mexico.
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, terete, furrowed, bearing two or three leaves at the attenuated apex, and sheathed at the base with large brown imbricated scales. Leaves oblong-linear, spreading, smooth, leathery in texture. Scape terete, issuing from between the leaves, and much longer than them, bearing five or six flowers at the apex, jointed, with sheathing scales at the joints. Flowers large and richly-coloured, much more so than in the typical form, sweet-scented; sepals lanceolate acuminate, spreading, of a brilliant purple-crimson, paler towards the base; petals ovate acuminate, subundulate, of the same colour as the sepals; lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes erect, truncately rounded, white, the middle lobe obovate-oblong, of an intensely brilliant purple-crimson colour, bilamellate on the disk, the apex recurved. Column semicylindrical, decurved, rosy purple.
Lælia autumnalis atrorubens, Backhouse, in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S., xii., 232.
Mr. Bateman has well observed that “the genus Lælia may be regarded as one of the most ornamental of its tribe, since pleasing colours, graceful habit, long duration, and delicious perfume—in short, all the essentials of floral beauty seem to be combined in its various species.” There is, indeed, no doubt that in this genus some of the most showy of our cultivated Orchids are to be found. There are, moreover, species presenting many different hues, varying from yellow to rich purple, and while some of them produce small flowers, in others they are gigantic in size. The subject of our plate, as will be seen from the figure, is a magnificent Orchid, our drawing of which was taken from a well-managed specimen grown by Mr. Stevens, Gardener to W. Thompson, Esq., The Grange, Walton, Stone, Staffordshire. This particular variety was imported in 1878 by Messrs. James Backhouse & Son, of York, who grow it to great perfection.