LELA ACUMINATA, 
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Orchidaceæ $ Epidendreæ-Lælieæ. 一 Gynandria-Monandria. 
CHARACT. GENER. — Perigonii — ex- pun t. 24. Ss Orchid. t. 28. Bot. Mag. t. 3804. 3810 
planata , exteriora reste æqualia; inte- x. Orch. Mex. t. 19, Neen, Gen. ۳۱, 372 (279. 371). haalia 
riora majora rmia carnosa. Labe TEE. pos- عب‎ Nom. 2047. de Rucs. in Cu. Lex. Herb. génér. Amat. 
ticum tripartitum lamellatum circa ام‎ con- | t. IV. t. 37. 2e sér. Bletiæ ۵۴, ۶ 
volutum. Gynostema carnosum apterum antice m A e IEI : Pseudobulbis ovatis com- 
canaliculatum. Anthera “Poli inia 8, caudi- pressis foliis solitariis emarginatis scapo 
= 4 elasticis . erecto brevioribus; floribus. corymbosis ; bracteis li- 
bæ mexicanæ , epiphyte , rhizomate pseudo- palis 
"ron foliis carnosis, scapis terminalibus pauci- | linearibus mes ae To undulatis acumi- 
multifloris, floribus speciosis odoratis natis ; labelli lobis iye me rotundatis, intermedio 
Éunidi Gat PI $909. lanceolato u undulato acuminato. Lon. 
Lelia Linon. Orchid. 115. Bot. Reg. t. 1751. ibid. میس‎ L. ac ta Lomi. Bot. Je t. 24. 1841. ۰ 
t, 26. 27, 54. mise, 42. 143. did. 1840. t. 41, mise. 25. 87. ibid. | Mag. of Bot. 1843. p. 49. c. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
ACUMINATED-LIPPED LAELIA. 
LELIA ACUMINATA. 
GENERIC CHARACTER 
} see above. 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
The various species of Lelia, are perhaps, among the most interesting of all epiphytal ërëm 
to the general cultivator, because they afford such an excellent and characteristic example of the 
order, by growing best on logs of wood, and also on account of their requiring a less temperature 
than many others of the tribe, particularly in winter ; 
loveliness of their flowers make them scarcely inferior to any in point of beauty. Many of them have 
likewise lately been introduced in such considerable numbers, that the ingenious culturist will easily 
be able to fasten HES a quantity of small specimens on one block, so as to produce a large 
and magnificent m 
The plant now ett. and which ranks among th 
found by Mr. Hartweg, the very active collector to 
tulen, in Guatemala. It grows there on the trunk of the Calabash-tree (Crescentia Cujete), on which 
Orohidectes are very frequently met with. It is said to form a fine corymb of eigh 
be so exceedingly icm that the Guatemalese give it the name of « Flor de Jesus. » t year 
Mm it was procured more abundantly by ۰ U. Skinner, Esq., and sold, among other things, 
a public auction in London. 
tely, as well as with great closeness, on the 
1 flattened and wrinkled. The flowers are borne 
on each stalk. But stronger specimens bear several blooms. These are of a very delicate blush tint, 
with the centre of the lip of a rich brownish purple. The colour of the whole, indeed, seems not 
much unlike that of Dendrobium nobile. : 
For cultivating the species, nothing is necessary but a suitable rough log d او‎ TT a 
and it can be kept in a warm moist house during spring and summer, but may be taken to a colder 
one in winter. At no time, however, does it require a high temperature. The blossoms appear to 
unfold in December or jii; at least, it bloomed at that period in the nursery of Mr. Knight, 
King's Road, Chelsea, where our drawing was prepare ed. 
According to Dr. Lindley, L. rubescens is its meare est ally, 
wrinkled Geiger -bulbs , large and more corymbose flowers, and in the 
from which « it differs in its large 
different form of the labellum.» 
