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L#LIA FURFURACEA. ScURFY-STALKED 
LALIA. 
KEKE EK KEKE KK EEE EERE 
Class and Order. 
GyYNANDRIA MonanpriA. 
( Nat. Ord.—OrcuipeEz. ) 
Generic Character. 
Sepala_ explanata, lanceolata, equalia. Petala majora 
paulo difformia. Labellum (posticum) 3-partitum, lamella- 
tum, cirea columnam convolutum. Coluwmna aptera, car- 
nosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera 8-locularis. Pollinia 
8; caudiculis 4 elasticis—Herbex epiphyte, rhizomate pseu- 
do-bulbifero. Scapiterminales pauci v. multiflori. Flores 
speciosi, odorati. Lindl. 
Specific Character and Synonym. 
Laua furfuracea ; pseudobulbis ovatis striatis submono- 
phyllis, foliis anguste oblongis erectis acutis scapo 
unifloro (?) tereti, multo brevioribus, bracteis ob- 
longis membranaceis acutis, sepalis lanceolatis acu- 
tminatis patentissimis, petalis subrhombeis lanceolatis 
undulatis sublobatis, labelli trilobi bilamellati lobis 
lateralibus erectis rotundatis truncatis intermedio ob- 
longo revoluto, ovario glandulis nigris furfuraceo. 
Lindl. 
Lauia furfuracea. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1839, t. 26. 
From the Woburn Gardens, where it was received from 
Mexico, through Mr. Parkinson. “It is,” as Professor 
Linpiey observes, « very like L. autumnalis (Tab. 27, vol. 
Jor 1839); but its pseudo-bulbs are merely ovate and 
slightly (in our old pseudo-bulbs very deeply) furrowed ; 
the leaves are solitary or in pairs, not in twos or threes : 
they 
