Tan. 6683. 
LAGLIA MoNOPHYLIA. 
Native of Jamaica. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEZ.—Tribe EpIDENDBER. 
Genus Lziia, Lindl. ; (Benth. et Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 533, ined.) 
LxL1a monophylla; rhizomate repente ramoso, caulibus pluribus gracilibus erectis 
1-foliatis infra folium longe vaginatis, folio anguste lineari-oblongo obtusiusculo, 
scapo elongato gracili uni-(rarissime bi-)floro vaginis remotis cylindraceis 
appressis aucto, perianthio aurantiaco-coccineo 1-14 poll. diametro, sepalis 
petalisque patentibus subequalibus oblongis subacutis, labello parvo columnam 
amplectente, lobis lateralibus angustis rotundatis terminali brevissimo recurvo 
rotundato, disco papilloso, clinandrio dorso crenulato. 
L. monophylla, WV. E. Brown in Gard. Chron, vol. xviii. (1882), p. 782. 
TRIGONIDIUM monophyllum, Griesb. Fl. Brit. W. Ind. p. 629. 
OcrapEsMIa monophylla, Benth. in Gen. Pl. vol. iii. p. 526. 
Unlike as this pretty plant is to most of its congeners, I 
am unable to find any character by which it should be 
removed from the genus to which Mr. N. E. Brown has 
referred it; except indeed, as may well be held in many 
cases, habit should be made available. This, however, is 
allowable only when the characters which habit affords are 
trenchant, and not those of a transitional nature, or such 
as may be expected to occur in a genus, from certain 
tendencies shown amongst its species. Now in the case 
of Lelia there are species showing a strong tendency to 
the habit of L. monophylla, notably the beautiful L. cunna- 
barina, Plate 4302,in which the pseudo-bulbs are suppressed, 
and the usually large lip of Lelia is represented by an 
organ little larger in proportion to the size of the flower 
than is that of L. monophylla. The red colour of the 
perianth of L. monophylla, too, so unusual in Lelia, is 
represented by one as vivid, though of a much yellower 
tint, in L. cinnabarina. 
APRIL Ist, 1883. 
