LALIA ANCEPS HILLIANA. 
[PuaTe 146. | 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs ovate or oblong-ovate, compressed, angulate, clustered, 
monophyllous or diphyllous. Leaves lanceolate oblong-acute, six to nine inches long, 
smooth, leathery, channelled at the base. Scape at the apex of the pseudobulb, 
from between the folded leaf-base, a foot long, two-edged, almost covered with long 
carinate semi-sheathing bracts, larger upwards, pale green tinged with red. Flowers 
large, two or three at the apex of each scape, white, with a charming blush-tinted 
lip; sepals lanceolate, two to two and a half inches long, the dorsal one somewhat 
longest, white, half an inch wide, the lateral ones channelled ; petals ovate-lanceolate, 
an inch wide, spreading, white; lip two inches long, three-lobed, the side lobes 
folded over the column, and spreading at the subacute apex, where they are of a pretty 
blush-pink, the tubular portion just tinted outside with pale yellow; throat or disk 
furnished with two deep yellow ridges, separated and bordered by three red _ lines, 
extending across the whitish portion at the base, and having recurved hairs spreading 
from the two lateral ones; front lobe an inch long, recurved, acute, mucronulate, 
yellowish white at the base, the anterior two-thirds of a delicate blush-pink. Column 
enclosed, green at the tip. 
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Laiia anceps Hiniiana, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, w.s., xv. 
e109; <Id., xix., $42, 
Our drawing of this pretty novelty was taken from a fine plant in the collection 
of C. J. Hill, Esq., Arnott Hill, Nottingham, after whom it is named, and who has 
been a cultivator of Orchids for many years. Mr. Hill has also some other rare 
species in his collection. 
The group of Lelias to which this plant belongs has now become somewhat 
numerous, and among them are several new white forms, which have been sent 
home by our energetic collectors. They have been trying to procure these for a 
long time—indeed, since the period when Lelia anceps Dawsoni was imported by | 
the Messrs. Low & Co. Since then many have been sold under that name, which 
have turned out to be nothing more than the old Z. anceps, and this has naturally 
caused great disappointment. It would appear that the Dawsoni variety cannot now 
be found, but the perseverance of our collectors has brought to light other beautiful 
white forms, which have been found in great masses, and these make a splendid 
contrast with our old favourite, the typical ZL. anceps, which has bloomed and 
decorated our Orchid houses and stoves during winter for many years. -Of late we 
