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with the disk obtusely keeled. They come from Ceylon and 

 India. 



Culture. — The same as that recommended for Bletia. 



I. spsciosa, Lindley. — This is a beautiful terrestrial finely 

 pubescent Orchid, with somewhat the habit of a Bletia. The 

 rhizomes are tuberous, terrestrial, fleshy, as large or larger 



IPSEA SPECIOSA. 



than a nut, fascicled, subglobose with conical tops, from 

 whence grow the slender lanceolate ribbed leaves six or eight 

 inches long; from their base arise the leafless erect scapes, each 

 furnished with several large flowers of a uniform rich orange 

 yellow, marked by several parallel lines of reddish orange on 

 the disk, which lines indicate the position of several bluntly 

 keeled crests which are there developed. — Ceylon. 



K(ELLEHSTEINIA, Reichenhach fil. 

 {Tribe Vandese, suhtribe Cyrtopodiese.) 



A small genus of Vandeous Orchids belonging to the group 

 CyrtopodiecB, included by Bentham in the genus Aganisia. 



