LAELIA. 441 



acute, plane, pure white, the lip entire, and not lobed as in L. elegans, but 

 beautifully frilled around the entire margin, the anterior portion rose-colour, 

 the centre paler veined with bright magenta-purple, and the throat pure white 

 stained with yellow. It flowers in May.—BradL 

 Fm.— Orchid Album, v. t. 207. 



L. MONOPHYLLA, N. E. Brou-n.—A\evj distinct and pretty dwarf-habited 

 species, resembling a Masdevallia in its growth. It has a creeping rhizome 

 and no pseudobulbs, but short slender erect stems as thick as a crow's quill, 

 dotted with rosy red, and having sheathing bracts; the leaves are solitary, 

 narrow linear-oblong and bluntish, of leathery texture, deep green on the upper 

 surface ; and the continuation of the stem, which rises from 6 to 10 inches high, 

 bears a solitary flower, 2 inches across, of a vivid orange-scarlet, the sepals and 

 petals being alike oblong and sub-acute, and the lip minute, yellow, enclosing 

 the column, which just shows its purple anther-cap beyond. It blossoms in 

 September and October. — Jamaica, 3,000 to 5,000 feet altitude. 



YlG.—Bot. Jllag., t. G683 ; OrcJiid Alhum, ix. t. 395. 



Syn. — Trigonidimii moiwphyllum ; Octadesmia vumvpkylla. 



L. " NOVELTY," JV. E. Brown. — This hybrid is the result of a cross between 

 L. ptimila and L. elegans, and was raised by the late Dr. Harris, of Lamberhurst. 

 It is described by Mr. N. B. Brown as follows : — "The flower is about the same 

 size as that of X. pumila; the sepals and petals are light rose-purple; the 

 latter organs being broader and more lanceolate than the sepals ; the lip is 

 entire, and similar in form to that of L. elegans, slightly frilled on the front 

 margin ; the sides, which are wrapped round the column, are white, and the front 

 part is of a rich maroon-purple, and there is a broad purple stripe dowrt the 

 centre of the disk, under the column, which is white ; pollen masses eight " 

 (Gardeners' Chronicle, 3rd ser., 1887, ii. p. 490). — Garden hybrid. 



Fig.— Gard. Mag., 1893, p. 500. 



L. PEDUNCULARIS, Lindl. — A charming compact-habited evergreen plant, 

 with the habit of L. acuminata. The pseudobulbs are roundish ovate, com- 

 pressed, rugosely wrinkled, bearing from the top a solitary oblong-obtuse leaf, 

 and a slender scape 10 inches or a foot high, terminating in a corymbiform 

 raceme of handsome rosy-magenta flowers, of which the sepals are lanceolate, 

 and the petals oblong-ovate, undulated, and the lip is prominent, three-lobed, 

 the lateral lobes short, the centre one oblong, rounded and recurved at the apex, 

 of the same colour as the sepals, except that there is a distinct purple-crimson 

 spot in the throat, and a small patch of creamy white just in front of it. It 

 requires to be grown on a block or in a basket ; blooms during the winter 

 months, and lasts about a fortnight in perfection. The finest form of this species 

 we have seen was in the collection of the late E. F. Ainsworth, Esq., M.D., 

 Lower Broughton, under the care of Mr. Mitchell ; the flowers in this case were 

 deep rose-coloured, and SJ inches in diameter. The figure in Paxion's Magazine 

 quoted below appears to us to represent this species rather than L. acuminata, 

 which name is attached to it. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Beg., 1845, t. 69 ; Orchid Album, iv.t. 173 ; Bot.Mag.. t.4099 ; Paxton, 

 Mag. Bot., x. p. 49 ; with tab. (acuminata') ; Hook., First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 27. 



