14 THE WOODLANDS ORCHIDS 



Very small but very pretty. Sepals palest green, petals 

 almost white, tinged with pink at the edges. The shovel- 

 shaped lip pinkish crimson. 



Euracheilos. — Sepals dusky stone - colour, edged with 

 pink, petals all dusky pink. Very large but narrow. The 

 maroon-crimson lip extends at right angles from the tube, 

 without any neck, 



Schilleriana. — The variety most clearly allied to L. pur- 

 purata. White or palest rose of sepal and petal, the latter 

 marked with purplish lines at the base. Lip a grand purple- 

 crimson, fading sharply towards the edges. 



Weathersiana. — Sepals palest tawny suffused with rose, 

 petals mauve. The broad lip of fine colour is so strongly 

 indented that it resembles the bipennis of the Amazons. 



Euspatha. — Reichenbach suggested that this is a hybrid 

 of L. Boothiana or L. purpurata with some Cattleya — probably 

 intermedia. It is white, with broad sepals and petals. The 

 tube is open nearly all its length, and the wide lip of crimson, 

 fading to purplish edges, shows scarcely an indentation. 



Hallii. — Crimson-purple sepals — petals darker ; the lip 

 approaches maroon. 



Oweniae.- — In this case the sepals and petals — which are 

 leaf-shaped — stand out boldly, straight on end — rosy with 

 mauve shading, more pronounced in the latter ; lip round, of 

 a charming carmine. 



Incantans. — A very large and stately bloom. Sepals of 

 the tender warm stone so often mentioned, petals broad and 

 waved, of the same colour down the middle, flushing to 

 rosy purple on each side. A fine crimson-velvet lip. 



Melanochites is a very symmetrical flower, though not 

 ' compact,' as the phrase goes. All lively rose-lake, the petals 

 a darker tone. The grand broad lip of purple crimson has 

 a pretty yellow blotch on either side beneath the tube. It is 

 sharply forked. 



