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eighteen inches high, and has Hght green foHage nine inches 

 long. The sepals and petals are white, the lip long and of a 

 rich crimson ; blooms during May and June, lasting three and 

 four weeks in beauty. It makes a good exhibition plant on 

 account of its showy flowers. 



L. Scliilleriana splendens. — A splendid variety, which grows 

 eighteen inches high, with two leaves of a light green colour 

 on the top of the bulb. The plants flower twice a year ; the 

 blossoms are large, the sepals and petals Hght rose, veined 

 with a deeper colour, the lip large, and of a beautiful magenta, 

 the top part light rose, and throat yellow. It blooms in June 

 and autumn, and as it lasts several weeks in perfection, it will 

 make a fine exhibition plant. 



L. Stelzneriana. — In growth like L. purpurata, but scarcely 

 so robust, the flowers are somewhat smaller, sepals and 

 petals pure white, petals much broader than the sepals, lip 

 pale lilac streaked with lines of a darker hue, having in 

 addition a blotch of pale mauve at each side of the throat. It 

 blooms in May and June. 



L. superhiens. — A noble Orchid from Guatemala. It is 

 rather a large-growing plant, but it is one of the finest of 

 the genus. The flowers are produced on a spike five feet 

 long, having sometimes on one spike from fourteen to twenty 

 flowers, each measuring nearly four inches across. The 

 flowers are of a beautiful deep rose, variegated with dark 

 red ; the lip is a rich crimson, striped with yellow. It 

 blooms during the winter months, and continues long in 

 beauty. The finest plant I ever saw of this was in the 

 Horticultural Gardens, Chiswick. It sometimes produced as 

 many as nine spikes of its beautiful flowers at one time ; the 

 plant was seven feet in length and four feet across, and was in 

 perfect health. 



L. Turnen, — This is a magnificent plant of the L. elegans 



