This section is from "The Horticulturist, And Journal Of Rural Art And Rural Taste", by P. Barry, A. J. Downing, J. Jay Smith, Peter B. Mead, F. W. Woodward, Henry T. Williams. Also available from Amazon: Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste.
From R. Warner, Esq. This was also a small weak plant, and proved to be identical with the Cattleya pumila, var. major, of Lemaire ("L'lllust. Horticultural,"vi., t.193), who proposes to reduce Laelia to a section of Cattleya. It was similar in habit to the foregoing, with rather longer and more decidedly oblong leaves. The flowers also were larger, measuring over four inches across, with the lip two inches long: the sepals and petals of the same form and color as in that called praestans, but the lip differently colored, the tubular portion being white inside, and whitish below, purplish above on the outside, while the mouth was rich rose-purple, paler towards the edge; two obscure crested veins only were visible inside the lip. Mr. Warner stated that the latter plant, which he called Laelia spectabilis, "always has larger flowers than praestans, even when the bulbs of praestans are the stronger of the two." The plants had been imported: from Brazil as Cattleya marginata, and were both regarded by the Committee as forms of the variable Laelia pumila, better known under the name of Cattleya pumila, of which the Cattleya marginata of gardens is again another form.
 
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