LALIA ANCEPS WILLIAMSIHI. 
[Puate 190. ] 
Native of Mexico. 
Epiphyte. Pseudobulbs ovate, compressed, angulately ribbed, monophyllous. 
Leaves oblong acute, about an inch and a half wide in the broadest central 
portion, channelled at the base, of a light green colour. Seapes terminal, about 
two-flowered, furnished with numerous sheathing bracts. Flowers large, four inches 
across, very chaste in their appearance, the lip alone being marked, and this only 
a the tube, which is yellow with red streaks; sepals lanceolate acute, spreading, 
ure white; petals ovate acute, about twice as broad as the sepals, pure white; 
a three- lobed, the lateral lobes rounded and spreading, otherwise folded over the 
column, their sides yellowish showing indications of veins, the throat clear yellow, 
with numerous veins of rich crimson, “of which three lie parallel on the disk,- whence 
the yellow hue is continued on to the basal part of the front lobe, which is 
roundish-oblong acuminate and wavy, somewhat recurved at the tip. Column 
enclosed. 
Lauria ANcers Wiiiiamsu, Sander MS.; Williams, Orchid Grower's Manual, 
6 ed., 853. 
There is no question that certain of the Lelas rank amongst our finest Orchids. 
Many of them are remarkable and valuable from their bright colours, which vary 
in the different species from rosy crimson to pink and magenta, and now we have 
several white forms of Lela anceps, which are becoming prominent. Of these 
white forms we were a long: time with only the L. anceps Dawsom, and though 
our collectors have been searching for years to find similar plants, they have not 
yet succeeded in again finding the true L£. anceps Dawsoni. Other handsome 
varieties have indeed been found and flowered, and large importations have reached 
this country within the last few months, among which we have no doubt that 
there will be found many fine varieties, but nevertheless they have to be proved. 
The one we here figure is a very charming variety, quite distinct from ZL. anceps 
Dawson and L. anceps Hillii, both of which are chaste and very beautiful. Our 
drawing was taken from a specimen which blossomed in the Victoria and Paradise 
Nurseries, Upper Holloway, and was exhibited before the Royal Horticultural Society, 
by whom it was awarded a First Class Certificate. It was imported by Messrs. 
Sander & Co., of St. Albans, from whom we bought the specimen, which was then 
the only plant that had flowered, so that it is very rare; indeed, a plant of this 
variety was recently sold by auction for 90 guineas. 
