256 ORCHIDS. 
The scape is 14ft. or more high, and bears from three to 
six flowers, which are not large, but very fragrant and 
graceful ; the sepals and petals are white, tinted with rose ; 
the lip also is white, or pale pink, streaked in the centre 
with lines of yellow; the middle lobe is curled back. A 
native of the mountains of Mexico, whence it was introduced 
about 1832. It is frequently imported in large quantities, 
and is usually cheap. After about four years’ cultivation, 
it is apt to become weak and beyond management. It 
flowers in November and December. 
Fig. 64; Botanical Magazine, t. 3957. 
Var. de//a.—Flowers flushed with rose; lip bright rose. 
Var. Stobartiana.—Ends of sepals, petals, and lip, coloured 
bright purple. 
Var. sulphurea.—F lowers pale sulphur-yellow. 
L. anceps.—This is a larger-growing plant than albida. 
The pseudo-bulbs are ovate and somewhat compressed. The 
leaves solitary, rarely in pairs, broadly lance-shaped, bright 
shining green. The scape is 2ft. to 3ft. long, flattened, 
jointed, and bears from three to six flowers, 4in. across; 
the sepals and petals are nearly equal, lance-shaped, and 
purplish rose or rosy lilac; the lip is funnel-shaped below, 
with a tongue-like front lobe, the colour being deep purple, 
shaded with rose, yellow in the throat, with purple streaks. 
There are many varieties of this species; they vary chiefly 
in the intensity of colour or the numbers of the flowers 
which are borne upon the scape, but all-are beautiful. 
L. anceps will thrive under block- or basket-culture, but as it 
attains a considerable size, the weight renders it best adapted 
to pot-cultivation. It is one of the easiest of Orchids to 
manage. We have grown good specimens of it in a house 
devoted to Maidenhair Ferns. It blossoms during the 
months of December and January, at which time it is the 
