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bulbs and an erect spike of frora six to fifteen bright cinnabar-red 

 flowers. Each flower is about two inches and a half across, the 

 sepals and petals are narrow, and the lip is marked with red. A 

 very attractive and useful species that blooms in the Spring. 



L. Dayana is very like L. pumila in general appearance, and 

 is frequently referred to as a variety of the latter species. It has 

 short pseudo-bulbs, each carrying one thick green leaf. The 

 flowers are rounded, about four inches across, rose-purple, with a 

 white base to the lip. It is a pretty orchid, dwarf, showy, and 

 best grown in a suspended pan or basket. 



L. FLAVA is a Brazilian species with tapering pseudo-bulbs 

 about six inches high, and erect spike a foot or more long, carry- 

 ing from four to nine flowers. The colour in soft orange-yellow. 



L. GRANDis is of Cattleya-like habit, about eighteen inches 

 high, and it carries its flowers, three to five together, in a short, 

 stiff spike. Each flower is five or six inches across, nankeen 

 yellow, with a rose-purple lip veined with white. 



L. JoNGHEANA, now that it has been imported in quantity, 

 is a popular species, and deservedly so, as it is of dwarf habit and 

 bears large showy flowers. It is about six inches high, and though 

 two or three flowers are usually produced from one spike, as many 

 as five have been noted on an imported spike. The segments are 

 broad and the whole flower flattened, five or six inches across, 

 bright rose-purple, with a yellow disc on the lip. The flowering 

 time is Winter and Spring. 



L. Perrinii is a fine old species introduced more than seventy 

 years ago, but now seldom grown. Its pseudo-bulbs are from six 

 to nine inches long, and the leaves are of similar length. The 

 flowers are five inches across, flat, pale rose-purple, with a deep 

 purple apex to the lip. The variety L. p. nivea is white with a 

 purple apex to the lip and a light yellow throat. 



