Tas. 5558. 
LUISIA Psycue. 
Butterfly-flowered Inisia. 
Nat. Ord. Orcnuipex.—Gynanpria MoNnanpria. 
Gen. Char. Sepala herbacea, linearia, lateralibus labello suppositis, dor- 
sali minore. Petala dissimilia, tenuiora, sepius longiora, patentissima vel 
_fornicata. Zabellum indivisum, sepius auriculatum, cum columné conti- 
nuum, dependens, inappendiculatum, nunc convexum, nune concavum et 
medio constrictum. Colwmna nana, carnosa, apoda. Stigma anticum, cir- 
culare, rostello obtuso obsoleto. Pollinia 2, cereacea, postice excavata ; 
caudicula lata brevi trianguiari, glandula membranaced replicata. Anthera 
subrotunda, 2-locularis, valvuhs macilentis.—Herbe epiphyte, caulescentes, 
erecte, guncee, Asie et Americe tropice. Folia teretia, rigida. Flores 
parei, obscure virides vel purpurascentes. Lindl. 
Luista Psyche; foliis teretibus crassis, spicis brevissimis paucifloris, se- _ 
palo dorsali ligulato-fornicato, lateralibus angustioribus per dorsum 
carinatis, petalis cuneato-oblongis subacutis, labello basi utrinque au- 
riculato, ante auriculas a basi utrinque minute semicordato trans- 
verse obovato subacuto, limbo minute lobulato. Rehb. fil. in. Gard. 
Chron. 
Luista Pysche. Rchb. fil. in Mohl et Schlecht. Bot. Zeit. 1863, p- 98, et in 
Gard. Chron. 1865 (‘ New Plants,’ n. 312). 
The genus Lwisia consists almost exclusively of inconspi- 
Cuous, taper-leaved plants, with much the habit of Vanda 
teres. ‘There are, however, a few exceptions to the above 
tule, the most remarkable of which are an unintroduced 
plant (the Zuisia volucris of Lindley) the flowers of which 
resemble birds with narrow outspread wings, and the species 
how figured for the first time, whose singular blossoms have 
quite an insect-like character. ; 
It was discovered in Burmah by the Rev. C. 8. Parish, 
by whom a few living specimens were sent to Messrs. Hugh 
Low and Co., of the Clapton Nursery. It is well described 
by Prof. Reichenbach, both in the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ of 
1863, and in the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle’ of 1865. It grows 
FEBRUARY Ist, 1866. 
