LALIA ANCEPS SCHRODERIANA. 
[PLatE 473.] 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphytal.  Pseudobulbs of great size, oblong-ovate, compressed, somewhat 
tetragonal, clothed with large membrancous sheaths of a silvery white: they are 
three to five flowers, which are large in size, and remarkable for their great 
substance, the whole flower being of a soft delicate satiny white; the petals are 
LALIA ANCEPS ScHRODERIANA, Reichenbach fil, in Gardeners’ Chronicle, 1885, 
p- 342. Reichenbachia, second series, Ly, t.18: 
This superb variety of the white-flowered Lelia anceps appears to be the 
very finest of its race, its growth being majestic, and its flowers large and of a very 
pure delicate soft satiny white. It does not appear to grow in that part of 
the country in which the typical plant abounds, but with many others of the 
white forms of this plant, it comes from the opposite side of the country, bordering 
upon the Pacific, which is somewhat warmer and more difficult of access. As a 
consequence, after the delays occasioned by such a long journey, the plants become 
much shrivelled and weakened, and they take a much longer time to restore them 
to health and strength, a point not sufficiently taken into account by the growers 
of these plants. The white varieties, however, are now becoming thoroughly 
established in our gardens, consequently they are blooming more freely, and their 
beauty is so exquisite, that it requires only to be seen to be highly appreciated. 
The variety whose portrait we now lay before our readers was drawn by our artist, 
Mr. J. N. Fitch, in the gardens of Baron Sir J. Henry Schroder, The Dell, Egham, 
where so many marvellous plants are brought together under the fostering care of 
Mr. Ballantine, and with whom it flowered for the first time in Europe about eight 
years since. 
Lelia anceps Schrideriana stands out conspicuously as the giant of its race, 
for we have never seen a variety that approaches this one, either in the size of its 
pseudobulbs, or the expansion of its flowers, which are lustrously beautiful. The 
sepals and petals are pure soft white, and the lip also is white, saving in the side 
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