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LA LIA acuminata. 
Tapering Lelia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE, § EPIDENDRES. 
LALIA. Botanical Register, vol. 21. fol. 1751. 
L. acuminata ; pseudo-bulbis ovatis compressis rugosis, foliis solitariis emar- 
ginatis scapo erecto brevioribus, floribus corymbosis, bracteis linearibus 
acuminatis ovario dupld brevioribus sepalis linearibus petalisque lanceo- 
latis undulatis acuminatis, labelli lobis lateralibus rotundatis intermedio 
lanceolato undulato acuminato. 
When a short notice of this plant was published at p- 17 
of the miscellaneous notices of this volume, nothing more was 
known of it than that it had produced a seape with two flowers 
upon it, in the collections of both Sir Charles Lemon and the 
Horticultural Society ; and that a supposed variety with 
violet flowers had blossomed in the same way with Messrs. 
Loddiges. 
It now appears, from a native specimen sent home by 
Mr. Hartweg, that it forms a fine corymb of eight flowers, 
and that it is in fact so very beautiful that the Guatemalese call 
it “ Flor de Jesus.” He found it on the trunk of Crescentia 
Cujete, the Calabash tree, a favourite haunt of Orchidacee, 
at a place called Retatulen, in the month of December. 
From ZL. rubescens, its nearest ally, it differs in its larger 
wrinkled pseudo-bulbs, larger and more corymbose flowers, 
and in the different form of the labellum. 
The following is Mr. Booth’s account of the plant as it 
flowered at Carclew. 
“This plant was received by Sir Charles Lemon, Bart. 
from the Horticultural Society in May, 1840, and flowered at 
Carclew in January, 1841. Although a weak specimen it 
produced two scapes with a couple of flowers on each, suffi- 
cient to shew that, like the others of this delightful genus, it 
is not only deserving attention but will amply repay with its 
truly delicate and fragrant flowers any extra trouble that may 
be taken in its cultivation. It has been hitherto grown in a 
pot of decayed vegetable lumps, but I suspect it would have 
May, 1841. K 
