Tas. 7541, 
LAALIA tonarres. 
Native of Brazil, 
Nat. Ord. OncHipEa#.—Tribe Epmpenprea. 
Genus Lauia, Lindl.; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Plant. vol. iii. p. 533.) 
. 
Lxuta longipes; pseudobulbis’ 2}-3-pollicaribus lineari-oblongis unifoliatis, 
vaginis albis scariosis lineatis tmbricatis pseudobulbo arcte appressis, 
folio 3-6-pollicari sessili erecto elliptico-oblongo obtuso carnoso supra 
concavo lete viridi subtus pallidiore obtuse carinato, pedunculo erecto 
flexuoso paucifloro folio breviore, bracteis minutis triangularibus, pedi- 
cello cum ovario 2-3-pollicari areuato v. flexuoso, floribus ad 2 poll. 
diam. roseis labello aureo, sepalis (lateralibus paullo latioribus) petalis- 
que consimilibus patentibus lineari-oblongis obtusis, labelli parvi lobis 
margine crispatis, lobis lateralibus subrotundatis marginibus recurvis, 
intermedio subquadrato, columna breviuseula, anthera fere globosa. 
L. longipes, Reichd. f. mss. in Herb. Mus. Reg. Berol. ea Xen. Orchid. vol. 
ii. p. 29. Cogniaue & Gross, Dict. Icon. Orchid. Lelia, t. II. Gard. 
Chron. 1897, vol. i. p. 110. 
L. Lucasiana, Rolfe in Orchid. Review, vol. i. (1893) p. 265, 
Bletia longipes, Reichb. f. Xen. Orchid. 
_ One of the smallest species of the beautiful genus Lelia, 
and not remarkable for any redeeming character that 
would recommend it to the horticulturist. It is a native 
of Brazil, where it was discovered by the traveller Sellow ; 
and was first described from his dried specimens by 
Reichenbach. 
The sepals and petals are represented as nearly white 
by Cogniaux and Grossens in their ‘‘ Dictionnaire Icono- 
graphique des Orchidées,” the pseudobulb short, and the 
ie of a very dark colour. Its nearest ally is L. cris- 
pilabia, A. Rich., from which it is distinguished by its 
yellow lip. Though not common in cultivation, it 
flowered in Sir Trevor. Lawrence’s collection in 1892, and 
in that of C. J. Lucas, Esq., of Warnham Court, Horsham. 
The specimen here figured was received at Kew from 
Messrs. Sander & Co. in 1893, and flowered for the first 
time in July, 1896. 
Deser.—Pseudvobulbs two and a half to three inches long, 
linear-oblong, as thick as the little finger, smooth, green, 
clothed with appressed white or pink membranous striated 
Junz 1st, 1897. 
