Tab 4:302 
L^LIA CINNABARINA. 
Cinnabar-coloured Lalia. 
Nat. Ord. ORCHiDEiE.—G ynandria Monaxdria. 
Gen. Char. Sepala explanata, lanceolata, sequalia. Peiala majora, paulo diffor- 
mia, camosa, explanata. Labellum posticum, 3-partitum, lameUatum, circa 
columnam convolutmn. Columbia aptera, camosa, antice canaliculata. Anthera 
opercularis. Pollinia 8, caudiculis quatuor elasticis.—Herbee epiphyta, rhizomate 
pseudo-bolbophoro. Folia carnosa. Scapi terminales, pauci- vel multifiori. Flores 
speciosi, odorati. Lindl. 
LiELiA dnnaharina ; pseudo-bulbis cybndraceo-ampuUaceis elongatis, foliis binis 
basi discretis oblongis subrecurvis et undidatis, scapo tenui ascendente foliis 
multo longiore 4—5'floro, sepalis petalisque oblongo-Hnearibus obtusis ^qua- 
libus, labelli convoluti recurvi lobis lateralibus acutis iatermedio ovaK cris- 
pato, Hneis tribus elevatis in axin. lAndl. 
LjELIA cinnabarina. Bateman in lAndl. Sertum Orchidaceum, tab. 28. 
Dr. Lindley has, in the volume of the Botanical Register for 
1842 (under foho 62), grouped the fourteen species of Ladia 
then known to him under two heads: 1, Grandijlora, including 
the well-known L. autumnalis, majolis, &c., having the petals 
distinctly larger than the sepals, aU but one natives of Mexico 
and Guatemala; and 2, Parviflorce, petals the same size as the 
sepals, aU being natives of Brazil. L. cinnabarina is the type 
of the second group, and what it wants in the size of the 
flowers of the first division is amply compensated, as Dr. Lindlej 
justly observes, by the peculiar colour of its flowers and its 
graceful manner of groivth, “ rendering it one of the most orna¬ 
mental species we possess.” 
The Orchidaceous House of the Royal Gardens, where our 
drawing was made in February, 1847, owes the possession ot 
this plant to the Messrs. Loddiges, who received it from Brazil. 
It appears to have been first introduced, however, from that 
country, by Mr. Young of Epsom, in 1836. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs clustered, elongated, subcyhndrical, but 
broadest at the base, clothed with sheathing, acute, pale-coloured, 
striated scales, and bearing at the extremity one, or geneiallj 
-may 1st, 1847. 
