January, 1922.] THE ORCHID REVIEW. 7 
LAELIA ANCEPS AND ITS VARIETIES. 7 
AELIA anceps was originally described and figured in 1835, from a plant 
which flowered in the establishment of Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney. 
Dr. Lindley remarked: ‘“‘ When we say that this plant is equal in beauty to 
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L4LIA ANCEPS CHAMBERLAINIANA, CULTIVATED BY MR. 
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any of the Cattleyas; that it has a far more graceful mode of growth, in 
consequence of the length of its slender scaly stems, from the point of which 
the flowers swing; and that it diffuses an agreeable fragrance, we shall 
have said that it is one of the most interesting of the tribe that has yet 
