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LALÍA autumnalis. 
Autumnal Lelia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®, $ EPIDENDREZ. : 
LAELIA. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1751. 
L. autumnalis; pseudobulbis ovatis teretibus costatis apice attenuatis 2-3-phyl- 
lis, foliis oblongo-linearibus patentissimis scapo multó brevioribus, scapo 
tereti apice subsexfloro, bracteis oblongis membranaceis acutis, sepalis lan- 
ceolatis acuminatis patentissimis, petalis oblongo-lanceolatis undulatis, labelli 
trilobi bilamellati lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis truncatis intermedio 
oblongo-lanceolato apice reflexo, ovario glabro. 
Bletia autumnalis. La Llave et Lexarz. nov. veg. descr. 2. 19. 
L. autumnalis. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 115. Bateman Orch. Mexic. et 
Guatemal. t. 9. 
. A very fragrant and beautiful plant, imported from 
Mexico of late years, and now not uncommon in gardens. 
A considerable number of iv has been given away among 
the Fellows of the Society by order of the Council of the 
Horticultural Society of London. 
The specimen now figured was taken from a plant which 
flowered at Woburn, and which was sent me by the Duke 
of Bedford. 
I have nothing to add to the following account extracted 
from Mr. Bateman's magnificent work on the Orchidaceous 
plants of Mexico and Guatemala. 
‘ The genus Lelia 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. Of these, five or six are already known, of which 
the one now represented, however charming it may be, is, 
