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LISSOCHILUS roseus. 
Rose-coloured Lissochilus. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHIDACER. $ VANDEX. 
LISSOCHILUS. Supra, vol. 12. vol. 1002. 
L. roseus (Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843. misc. 37. Dendrobium roseum, Swartz. 
in Persoon synops. p. 523.) ; foliis lato-lanceolatis erectis plicatis, scapo 
squamis lanceolatis acutis membranaceis distantibus vaginato, racemo 
denso oblongo, bracteis ovatis acuminatis ovario brevioribus, sepalis 
spathulatis acutis concavis reflexis, petalis oblongis apiculatis, labelli 
trlobi lobis rotundatis intermedio emarginato cum mucrone, disco 
lamellis tribus undulatis serrulatis tuberculo parvo utrinque. 
Although the terrestrial Orchidacez of hot countries are 
too often very inferior to the epiphytes, yet there are many 
exceptions to that rule, among which few are more striking 
than the present, which will not suffer by comparison with 
the Vandas, Saccolabiums, and Dendrobiums of India. 
It is a native of Sierra Leone, whence it was received by 
Mr. Rucker, in whose magnificent collection of Orchidacez 
it lowered in February 1843. The leaves are broad, stiff, 
and plaited like a reed ; the flower-stem is between 3 and 4 
feet high. "The petals are of the brightest rose colour, set 
off with velvety-brown sepals, and a yellowish stain on the 
lip. : 
There is another plant in the same part of Africa, which 
would perhaps excel even this in beauty, and it is much to be 
regretted that no one should have yet been able to send it 
home. Its petals, even dried, are an inch and a half long. 
Sir William Hooker has a specimen in his herbarium, col- 
lected near Boney, which we named some years ago Lisso- 
chilus macranthus. 
Fig. 1. shews the inside and form of the lip ; 2, the column; 
and 3. the pollen-masses. 
