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leaves. The flowers are produced from the side of the bulbs, 

 on spikes about six inche^. in length. The various plants 

 belonging to this genus are of easy culture, if properly 

 attended to with respect to water, of which they require 

 a liberal supply during the growing season, especially L. 

 Skinneri and its varieties. I have seen specimens of this 

 species bearing as many as fifty blossoms, and producing a 

 gi-and effect. They should be grown in a cool-house, potted 

 in peat, with good drainage, and be liberally suppHed with 

 water during the growing season ; they should, in fact, never 

 be allowed to get dry at the roots even while at rest. These 

 plants will stand for a very long time in flower in a sitting- 

 room, and will continue in full perfection, without the slightest 

 injury arising therefrom. They are propagated by division 

 after flowering. 



L. citrina. — A fine robust-growing plant, with the habit of 

 L. RarrisoiKB, and flowering about the same time. The 

 flowers are large, thick, and fleshy ; sepals and petals lemon 

 colour ; lip white and lilac. It is a distinct and rare plant. 

 Native of Brazil. 



L. criienta. — A Guatemalan species, with yellow blossoms, 

 marked with a dark spot in the centre of the hp ; it flowers 

 in abundance in March and April, and lasts three weeks in 

 perfection. 



L. Deppei. — A good old species fi'om Xalapa. Flowers 

 white and brown, with orange spots ; hp deep orange. It 

 blooms during the winter and spring months, and lasts long 

 in beauty. 



L. giyantea. — A stately-growing plant, of which there are 

 several varieties, some of them not worth growing, though the 

 best variety is well deserving a place with L. Skinneri. It 

 makes oblong pseudobulbs some five or six inches high, bearing 

 two, or sometimes three, large leaves from one to two feet long, 



