112 THE PURPLE-STAINED LAELIA. 
former linear-lanceolate, rolled back at the edge towards the base and thus appearing unguiculate ; 
the latter three times as broad, ovate-oblong, obtuse, wavy. The lip is three inches long, rolled 
round the column, with a much-rounded point from which the rounded lateral lobes are hardly dis- 
tinguishable ; it is yellow in the middle towards the base and streaked with crimson, but the limb is 
of the deepest and richest purple, diminishing in intensity towards the edge. 
It is evidently very near the Lelia grandis, another Brazilian species, introduced into this 
work at No. 21 of the Gleanings ; but that species is represented to have a leaf broader at the base 
than the point, and nankin-coloured flowers, with a white lip washed with rose at the base; the 
sepals and petals are also narrower, more wavy, sharper, the latter serrulate, and the lateral lobes of 
the lip very distinct and ovate. 
The vignette represents the plant as it was exhibited at Chiswick. 
