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0110 of habit, hul «r fttruetUH : the pollcn-massc* of Call Icy n being four, and those of Lttlia eight in 



number. 



Our garden* now < tain nil the known specie of (his mo*t noble genu* with one exception. 



L, ancep*, albida, furftrattft, and antnmnalis have all been figured in the Botanical Register ; the 

 latter also beautifully in Mr. Batcman'* iplendid work on the Orchidnc* *J »f Mexico and Guatemala. 

 L. majalis, d* Klor dc Sfain, lias been sent alive by Mr. Hiirlwcg from Mexico 10 the Horticultural 

 Society, and has been extensively distributed. The species still to procure is the real L. grandilloro, 

 the Bletln grandifloni of I)e la Llave and Lexana, mid Flor de Corpus of the people of Meelioacan. 

 Thia latter is too imperfectly described to enable us to judge very correctly of its npi>carancc; it is 

 however said to have large flowers pale purple, elegant, and rfttber *wcct; to which is added, that 

 they are "spitlinnuui ;" but whether by ibis expression the Mexican authors intended to say that lie 

 flowers arc a spun high above ilie ground, or a span in diameter, two very different things, there are 

 no moans of ascertaining. In the former caae tlu-y would resemble L- majalis : in the latter they 

 would bo much larger than anything yet discovered. Whatever scneo is to be attached to the 

 meaning of spithamicus, it seems dear that L. gramiillora, with oblong or roundish pear-shaped 

 pseudo-bulbs, a «ape occasionally dichotomous, and amplexicaul bt*clt» is a very different specie* 



from any thin" vet seen in onr gardens or herbaria. 





