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than those of the type. The sepals and petals are creamy 

 white, tipped with rosy lilac, and the lip is yellow, with a 

 hroad band of magenta around the middle lobe, and an orange- 

 yellow throat. It flowers in December and January. — 

 Mexico. 



L. alMda Marianse, Warner. — A charmingly pretty variety 

 of compact habit, with pale green foliage and flowers, in which 

 the sepals and petals are flesh colour, changing to salmon, and 

 the lip is mauve, with bufi"-coloured stripes. A desirable 

 plant, blossoming during winter, and as it continues in bloom 

 four or five weeks, it is a valuable addition to a collection 

 when flowers are generally scarce. — Mexico. 



L. albida SUlphurea, lichb. f. — A distinct variety, having 

 large flowers, of which the sepals and petals are sulphur- 

 coloured, and the lip mauve on each side of the anterior lobe, 

 the crests orange. — Mexico. 



L. amanda, Echb. f. — A very distinct and handsome plant, 

 which, it has been suggested, may be a natural hybrid. It has 

 thin fusiform stems, six to eight inches in height, of a light 

 green colour, and bearing two cuneate-ligulate coriaceous 

 leaves, six to nine inches long, said to be tinted with red 

 underneath when young. The flowers are five to six inches 

 across, and are produced on two-flowered peduncles ; the sepals 

 and petals light rose or flesh-colour, the lip deeper rose, having 

 a rich purple venation. At first sight the flowers resemble 

 those of Cattleija maxvna, and we should think this plant 

 may possibly have been one of its parents. It flowers in 

 October, and lasts for six weeks in beauty. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 135. 

 Syn. — Catthya Rothschildiana. 



L, anceps, Limlley. — A remarkably handsome species, and 

 one of the most useful winter-flowering Orchids we have. It 

 has oblong compressed somewhat quadrangular pseudobulbs 

 four or five inches long, oblong lanceolate leaves, generally 

 in pairs but sometimes solitary, and long two-edged scapes 

 from the apex of the pseudobulbs bearing two to five large 

 showy flowers three or four inches across, which will last for 

 a month in perfection if kept in a cool dry house ; the sepals 

 and petals are rose-lilac, the lip a beaatiful deep purple, with 

 the broad side lobes yellow marked with deep red lines ; the 



