Epiphytal. _Stems_ thin, fusiform, a foot to a foot and a half in height, diphyllous, invested by a sheathing mucronulate scale. _Leaves_ cuneate ligulate, bluntly acute, six to nine inches long, coriaceous, of a light green. _Peduncles_ two flowered issuing from a small narrow spathe. _Flowers_ five to six inches across, delicately coloured; _sepals_ ligulate-oblong acute, entire, of a flesh-colour or pinkish blush with purple veins, the dorsal one three inches long and three-fourths of an inch wide, the lateral ones somewhat longer and broader, slightly falcate-deflexed; _petals_ linear-oblong blunt, three inches long, and an inch broad, of the same pinkish-blush or pale rosy-lilac as the sepals, but more distinctly veined; _lip_ three inches long, rosy lilac, marked by longitudinal veins, with a cordiform base, three-lobed, the lateral lobes folded over the column and about twice its length, the front edge rounded and slightly wavy the middle lobe projecting an inch and a half, roundish-oblong, obtuse, apiculate, prettily veined with magenta, the few strongish central veins parallel, the rest divergent and variously netted, the tip paler, the veins continued through to the margin which is crispulate. _Column_ decurved, semiterete, winged, magenta except about the stigmatic hollow which is white, the apex toothed. Lælia amanda, _Reichenbach fil._, in _Gardeners’ Chronicle_, N.S., xviii., 776. Cattleya Rothschildiana, _of some gardens_. We are pleased to be able to figure and describe such a distinct species of _Lælia_ as the subject of our present plate, which forms quite a new type in the genus. It produces very chaste looking flowers, and is decidedly novel in the style of marking of its lip. There have been many new varieties of the _L. elegans_ and _L. anceps_ type introduced of late, but few have proved so good as those obtained many years before: for example, of the forms of white _anceps_, none are so good as _L. anceps Dawsoni_; and of the _elegans_ type, there are none to surpass _L. elegans alba_ and the dark _L. elegans Turneri_, and other beautiful sorts which might be named. Our drawing shows quite a distinct and novel form as compared with these, and was taken from a plant in the fine collection of W. E. Brymer, Esq., M.P., Ilsington House, Dorchester. There are many fine Orchids included in Mr. Brymer’s collection. _Lælia amanda_ is an evergreen species, with pseudobulbs attaining about eighteen inches in height, and light green leaves. The flowers are produced in upright spikes, the sepals and petals being of a pale tint of rosy lilac, the lip bright rose with lilac, veined with brighter rosy-purple. It blooms during the autumn, and according to Mr. Powell, Mr. Brymer’s gardener, lasts for six weeks in beauty. It is a free growing species, but like the forms of _L. elegans_ requires good cultivation.