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and broader petals are of a delicate lilac, beautifully spotted 

 with rose-purple ; the lip is three- lobed, the tips of the lateral 

 lobes violet-rose, and the middle lobe of a deep rich magenta, 

 the throat being white. It succeeds well with the other 

 Lalias, and is very rare. — Brazil. 



'EiG,.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i. t. 6. 



Syn. — L. grandiflora, 



L. grandis, Lindley. — A very distinct and singular, and 

 also a very rare species, remarkable for the colour of its 

 flowers. It grows about a foot high, with clavate furrowed 

 stems, from which rises the solitary oblong-acute rigid dark 

 green leaf. The scapes are 

 about four-flowered, and 

 emerge from terminal oblong 

 sheaths ; they measure about 

 four inches across, and have 

 the reflexed and twisted 

 sepals and petals of a light 

 nankin or fawn colour, the 

 lip white in the throat, 

 beautifully veined through- 

 out with magenta-rose, the 

 middle lobe being prettily 

 crispate-undulate. It flowers 

 during the summer, and 

 will remain in perfection for 

 a long time if kept from the 

 damp. — Brazil : Bahia. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, iii, t. 123 ; 

 Paxt. Fl. Gard., i. 60, fig. 38; 

 Flore des Serres, vii. 238, with fig. ; 

 Id., t. 2473 ; Boi. Mag., t. 6553 ; 

 Gartenflora, t. 698. 



L. harpophylla, Rchb. /. 

 — A very handsome species, 

 and one that should be grown 

 in every collection. The 

 stems are slender terete, about one foot in height, bearing 

 a solitary lanceolate acute leaf. The scapes are produced in 

 a longish terete sheath from the apex of the stems, and bear 

 from four to eight flowers, of which the lanceolate pointed 

 sepals and petals are bright orange-vermilion, and the three- 

 lobed lip of the same colour, margined with white. This 



L.ELIA HARPOPHTLLA. 



