LALIA MEASURESIANA. 
[PuaTE 207.] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems clavate, compressed, closely furrowed, upwards of a foot in 
height, one or two-leaved. Leaves leathery in texture, oblong-obtuse, emarginate. 
Pedunele, rising out of a short whitish brown acute spathe, and supporting about four 
flowers arranged in a corymbiform raceme. lowers four to five inches across, appearing 
to be of moderate size in consequence of the parts being rather narrow; sepals lanceolate, 
somewhat wavy or twisted, white; petals also white, oblong-lanceolate, broader and 
more undulated than the sepals; dip two and a half inches long, the basal half or 
more somewhat closely convolute, yellowish white, the inside of the throat yellow; 
front lobe one and a quarter inch wide, roundish, the edge mecting over the mouth 
of the tubulose portion, and forming a distinct even border of delicate rosy pink, 
the anterior margin also frilled; the front lobes beyond the throat of a pleasing 
magenta-rose, flabellately veined in curving streaks, pale in the anterior part for 
about half the extent of the border, and in the paler part more or less streaked 
with deeper magenta-rose, the base on both sides being of a full magenta hue so 
as to cut off the throat in a nearly straight line. Colwmn included. 
Lata Measurestana, Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., addenda. 
We are pleased to have the opportunity of figuring one of the most delicate 
and beautiful of the Lelias—a group which ranks among the finest of cultivated 
Orchids. Our present subject is a choice addition to the many other charming 
species of this favourite genus, whose showy and attractive flowers always prove 
acceptable to those who keep up a collection of these distinguished subjects. We are 
indebted for our sketch to the kind permission of R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, 
Streatham, in whose honour the plant is named, and who is fortunate in blooming 
so many new and rare Orchids. This Lelia is very free in producing its elegantly- 
coloured and showy blossoms, which are of good size and substance, and grow in 
fine corymbiform heads. 
Lelia Measuresiana is a compact-growing evergreen plant, with clavate stems 
fifteen inches high, and dark green bluntly-oblong leaves about six inches long and 
two inches broad. The racemes of flowers proceed from a sheath after the growth 8 
completed. The sepals and petals are white, the lip of a bright rosy purple, beauti- 
fully frilled round the margin, the throat yellow with the upper portion bordered 
-with pale rose. It blooms during the months of April and May, and lasts for 
three weeks in perfection. 
