LAELIA. 



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|iurple near the extremity, the whole Ijeiiig broadly margined with white.— 

 Mexico : Juquila. 



Fig. — Warner, Sd. Orch. PL, ii. t. 34 ; Omhid Alhum. i. t. 44 ; Floral Mag., t. 530 ,■ 

 Jrnnin/j.i, Orch., t. 6 ; fiard. ( 'kron., 3rd ser., 1887, i. p. 424, f. 82 ; Vi-Uch'.i Man. Orch. Pi!. 

 ii. p. .58 ; Gardening Wiirld, i-x. p. 2'J5. 



LAELIA ANCEPS DAWSONI. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



L. ANCEPS DELICATA, Hort.—A distinct and handsome form, with scapes 

 liearing from four to six flowers each. The sejials and petals are white, stained 

 with ro;5y-purple ; the lip white, suffused with reddish-purple and shaded with 

 violet, the throat being orange-yellow. This variety is deserving the attention 

 of all cultivators of these plants, on account of the numerous flowers borne on 

 each raceme. — Me.rico. 



