LALIA FLAVA. 
[PLaTEe 226. ] 
Native of Brazil. 
Epiphytal. Stems short, ovate, pseudobulbous, a few inches in height, invested 
with close overlapping membranous sheaths. Leaves evergreen, oblong acute, plane, longer 
than the pseudobulbs, usually solitary, of a leathery-fleshy texture, and tinged with 
brownish-red on the costa beneath and along the margin. Scape erect, about a foot 
high, the base clothed with a few sheathing scales, green, terminating in a cylindraceous 
raceme of nine or ten flowers, the pedicels having small ovate keeled bracts at their 
base. Flowers rather small in size, but striking in colour, which is everywhere of a 
deep yolk-of-ege yellow; sepals linear-oblong obtuse, an inch long, about equal in 
size, somewhat recurved, and distinctly channelled ; petals about the same size, form, 
and colour as the sepals, standing forward like a pair of horns; lip shorter than 
the sepals, oblong, the middle front portion obtuse, recurved at the tip, minutely 
but prettily undulated, the lateral basal portion longer, entire, and folded over the 
column, and having on the disk a crest of four parallel lamelle which are crenated 
along the upper edge and become divergent at the apex. Column about half as 
long as the lip, winged at the margins, and having a blunt keel at the back 
terminating just behind the anther-bed, of a paler yellow colour than the rest of 
the flower, 
_ USLIA FLAVA, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1839, Misc. 143; Id., 1842, t. 62; 
Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 359. 
Laria cavtescens, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1841, under t. 1. 
- — FLAVA, Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales Botanices Systematce, 
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The genus to which our present subject belongs is a most popular one, and 
Comprises, among its species, many that produce large and showy flowers of extreme 
“i The species we now figure is very distinct, and one which is well worth 
stowing on account of its diversity, both of colour and habit, from the large and 
— kinds such as Lelia purpurata and L. elegans. It is of the same type 
‘ cimnabarina, and of a similar mode of growth, but in it the flowers are of 
Crange-scarlet, while in L, flava, as will be seen from our plate, they are yolk-of- 
— yellow, and thus form a good contrast with the colours of other orchidaceous 
a This is especially the case when the plants are well grown, such — 
‘< * Seen produced by the late Mr. 8. Woolley, of Cheshunt, who has exhibited at 
me “Sahaeg shows fine specimens of this plant, each bearing several ‘spikes of gaily- 
* : flowers. Our sketch was taken from ‘a well-crown plant in the collection 
ag Auguste Van Geert pare, of Gand, Belgium, who is a great lover “— 
ds, and has some good specimens in his collection. 
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