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almost for nothing. These, too, all disappeared without flowering, except 
one which was purchased by Mr. Dillwyn Llewellyn, and which was 
figured in the Orchids of Mexico and Guatemala (t. 23), and by Dr. Lindley 
in the Botanical Register (1844, t. 30). The drawing in the former work 
was made under Dr. Lindley’s direction, and, under some misapprehension, 
three flowers were represented on the scape; but never, except under 
exceptional circumstances, did it produce more than one. 
Just as Humboldt failed to make his description intelligible to Lexarza, 
so did the latter to Lindley, who called the plant first Cattleya Grahami, and 
Fig. 31. LLIA MAJALIS. 
‘A group grown in the collection of O. O. Wrigley, Esq., Bridge Hall, Bury, by Mr. E. 
Rogers, under conditions described at page 256 of our ninth volume. These, it will 
be noted, differ considerably from the treatment here described by Mr. Bateman. 
afterwards Leelia majalis, and though Reichenbach wishes to go back to 
Bletia speciosa, Lelia majalis it is to cultivators, 
He would wish it to be noticed that while Lexarza described the flowers 
specimens were not a 
and so it ever will be. 
as a span across in their native wilds, Mr. Dawson's 
whit inferior. He also pointed out that the Romish festival of Corpus 
Christi (whence the Lelia derives its name of the “ Flor di Corpus”) took 
place that very week. : 
Mr. Bateman said that he approached, and not without perplexity, the 
subject of the treatment best adapted for this beautiful Lzlia, the more so 
