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LAELIA albida. 
White-flowered Lelia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEZ, $ EPIDENDREZ. ' 
LALIA,. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1751. 
L. albida ; pseudo-bulbis ovalibus diphyllis, foliis linearibus acutis spicá mul- 
tiflorá 4-pló brevioribus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis vel subacumi- 
natis petalisque latioribus acutis, omnibus apicibus reflexis fortiter mucro- 
nulatis; labelli alté trilobi tricostati lobis lateralibus erectis rotundatis 
intermedio duplo majore subrotundo obscure apiculato reflexo. Bateman 
in litt. Botanical Register, 1839, misc. no. 4. 
Pseudobulbi ovati, sulcati, diphylli. Folia angusté lanceolata, erecto- 
patula, scapo breviora. Racemus erectus, 3-5-florus. Bractew ovate, dure, 
obtuse, sessiles, nane. Sepala candida, apice rosea, oblongo-lanceolata, 
patula. Petala breviora, oblonga, obtusiora, revoluta, concolora. Labellum 
obovatum, trilobum, 3-lamellatum : laciniis lateralibus obtusis intermedio ob- 
tuso apiculato undulato rubescente multo brevioribus; lamelle labelli lutee, 
purpureo-punctate. Columna elongata, glabra. 
Oaxaca is the head-quarters of Orchidaces, in the king- 
dom of Mexico. It was there that Count Karwinski found 
the greater part of the species, of which specimens were 
brought home by him to Munich; it is there that the majo- 
rity of European collectors have obtained the best part of 
what they have sent home; and where, cn Mr. Hartweg 
has got together not fewer than 140 species for the Horticul- 
tural Society. 
Oaxaca is the native country of this lovely plant, a notice 
of which has already been inserted in the present work, and 
than which none is more worthy of a figure; for its flowers 
are as sweet as a bed of primroses, which in fact they much 
resemble in odour. Count Karwinski found it near St. Pedro, 
in cool places, according to the herbarium of Dr. Von Martius, 
in which wild specimens exist. 
