FEBRUARY, 1916.] THE ORCHID: (REVIEW. 49 
Ge MEXICAN LAELIAS, ~ | 
Bs) “ 
mf HE Mexican Lelias have for some time been making a fine display in 
our collections, and it may be interesting to reproduce photographs 
Fig 18. La ia FINCKENIANA. 
Fig. 20. L. ANCEPS SANDERIANA. 
Fig. 19: L. GouLpIANA. 
of a group of three charming kinds, two of them among the most popular 
in cultivation, and the third a rare natural hybrid, of which few examples 
are known. 
L. Goutp1ana (fig. 19) was introduced to cultivation about twenty-eight 
years ago, and for a long time passed as a supposed natural hybrid between 
L. anceps and L. autumnalis, though there was always some uncertainty 
