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LÆLIA peduncularis. 
Long-stalked Lelia. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACE®. $ EPIDENDREZ. 
LÆLIA. Lindl. supra, 1839. mise. 42. 
$ 1. Grandifloræ ; Petals distinetly larger than the sepals. 
L. peduncularis (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842. misc. 10); pseudobulbis sub- 
rotundis compressis lined utrinque elevatá, foliis oblongis obtusis scapo 
tereti vaginato brevioribus, corymbo multifloro, bracteis ovatis abrupté 
acutis pedunculo pluries brevioribus, petalis oblongis obtusis sublaceris 
planis, labelli lobis lateralibus abbreviatis obtusis recurvis antice sub- 
re intermedio oblengo rotundato plano subrepando lineis 2-4 
elevatis. 
When this plant was first named, in the winter of 1841-2, 
upon the inspection of a specimen sent to London, from the 
rich collection of Mr. Barker of Birmingham, a very imper- 
fect idea was formed of its real beauty, for the specimen was 
withered, and injured in the transmission. In November, 
1844, we, however, again received it from the same gentle- 
man, and then found it to be what is here represented, one 
of the most ornamental, and perhaps the most graceful, of 
the genus. 
Its flowers are of one deep rose colour, a little heightened 
at the lower part of the lip, and they droop gracefully from the 
end of a slender elastic scape. The unusually long pedun- 
cles add to the elegant appearance of the species. 
It approaches most nearly to the Lælias rubescens and 
acuminata. From the former it differs in its lip: having none 
of the hairiness of that species, and its flowers being much 
more closely arranged ; from the latter, in neither its petals 
nor lip being wavy and sharp pointed ; and from both, in its 
very large whole-coloured flowers, flat jagged petals, short 
recurved lip-lobes, and very long flower-stalks. 
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