Tas. 5558. 
LALIA GRANDIS. 
Largeflowered Lelia. 
Nat. Ord. Oncutprm.—GyYnanpria Monanprera. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4302.) 
Lxuta grandis ; caule clavato monophyllo, folio coriaceo, pedunculo bifloro 
basi spathaceo longiore, floribus subhorizontalibus, sepalis lanceolatis 
reflexis, petalis late lanceolatis crispis convexis, labello membranaceo 
venoso nudo undulato trilobo, laciniis lateralibus circa columnam con- 
volutis et multo longioribus. Lindl. 
Laut grandis. Lindl. et Pact. Fl. Gard. v. 1. n. 91, ewm «ylog. 
This fine Lelia first made its appearance in the establish- 
ment of M. Morel, of Paris, where it flowered in the spring 
of 1850. In the year following it was exhibited at one of 
the great London shows, but from that time it would seem 
to have entirely disappeared from our collections, until its 
reintroduction last year (1864) by Messrs. Hugh Low and Co., 
of the Clapton Nursery, who received a few plants of it from 
their collector at Bahia. From the same locality and about 
the same time, specimens were sent by Mr. Williams to the 
Royal Gardens at Kew, where one of them flowered finely 
in the summer of 1865, when it was drawn by Mr. Fitch for 
this work, in which the first coloured representation of the 
plant is now presented. Some slight discrepancies may be 
observed between Mr. Fitch’s drawing and the woodcut in 
Paxton’s Magazine, but these are readily accounted for by the 
circumstance that the former was made from fresh flowers, 
while the latter was taken from specimens that had probably 
suffered in their transmission to this country. 
In its habit and the general aspect of its flowers L. grandis 
JANUARY Ist, 1866. . 
