Pi-ate 180. 



MIulA XANTHINA. 



Yellow -flowered Lcelia. 



Gen. Char. [Vide supra, Plate 128.) 



hm. 



ikxanihina; folio oblongo-lorato coriaceo pseudobulbo fusiformi longiore, racemo 4-5-floro, 

 racteis obsoletis, sepalis petalisque oblongis obtusis subsequalibus undulatis valde convexis, 

 labello cucullato subquadrato antice obtuse trilobo, venis inappendiculatis. Lindl 



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Messrs. Backhouse and Son, of the York Nursery, had the honour of introducing 

 ttisfine and new Brazilian Lcelia, on which Dr. Lindley (Bot. Register, 1842, t 62), 

 remarks as follows : 



"This resembles Lcelia flam, but is far larger and handsomer. It most especially 

 1 1 ers m the undulated sepals and petals being leathery and very convex, in conse- 

 quence of their sides being rolled backwards, and in the form of the lip, which, when 

 spi-ead flat, is nearly quadrate, the front side, which is widest, being divided into tluee 



\iU\\^ ^""^^^ ""^ ^"^^^^ ^^^^^' '^'^'^'' ^^^ ^'P ""^ ^^"^ •^''^'^ '^ "^^^^^^ three-lobed, the 

 "ii tile lobe being crisp and much longer than the side ones. Moreover, in the plant 



j^ow before me, the lip has no trace of raised veins, while, on the contrary, in L(xlia 

 M^a.ii has four in the middle very conspicuously raised above the general level." 



^^'^tl^ina should be grown in the Cattleya-house, in which it is quite at home. 



^ig- 1. Labellum.- 2. Column and anther. 3^4. V oWen-m&sses :—'m a gnified. 



