Renanthera Lowii, Baron Rothschild’s 106 Saccolabium miniatum, _Hooker_ 107 Stanhopea gibbosa, Mr. Wallis’s 107 Trichopilia fragrans nobilis, _Lind. et And._ 128 Vanda Cathcartii, Mr. Heriot’s 131 Vanda Lowii, Baron Rothschild’s 106 Vanda Sanderiana, Mr. Lee’s 111 Vanda suavis and tricolor, Mr. Graham’s 118 Vanda teres, Mr. Broome’s 102 Warscewiczella Wendlandi, _Rchb. f._ 126 Zygopetalum Burkei, Messrs. Veitch’s 122 Zygopetalum Wendlandi, _Rchb. f._ 126 [Illustration: PL. 97. LÆLIA ELEGANS PRASIATA] LÆLIA ELEGANS PRASIATA. [Plate 97.] Native of Brazil. Epiphytal. _Stems_ erect, clustered, terete, clavate, jointed, about one and a half foot high. _Leaves_ in pairs at the top of the stems, linear-oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, deep green. _Racemes_ short, erect, six to eight-flowered, issuing from an oblong purplish compressed bract, the peduncles and pedicels green. _Flowers_ large and showy, five inches across; _sepals_ about three inches long, oblanceolate, the edges revolute and the tips recurved, of a light magenta-rose, paler towards the base, having a greenish tint along the centre, and a distinct flush of purple; _petals_ obovate-lanceolate, acute, an inch broad, of a deeper rose than the sepals, and having a flush of green, the margins undulated; _lip_ three-lobed, the lateral lobes elongate, white, rolled over the column, tinted with rose at the edges; and of a bright rosy crimson at the tips; the front lobe an inch and three-fourths in breadth, transversely-reniform, crenate and much undulated at the margin, of a rich magenta-crimson, traversed by veins of deeper crimson, the veins most evident in the centre where the ground colour is paler; disk smooth. _Column_ clavate, marginate, enclosed. Lælia elegans prasiata, _Reichenbach fil., in litteris_, 1863; _Id._ _Botanische Zeitung_, _October_, 1864; _Id._ _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., xix., 11 (sub-variety).