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disk has a crest of three yellow ridges. It blooms in Decem- 

 ber and January. It should be grown in the Mexican house, 

 as it delights in an abundance of light and air ; a copious 



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supply of water should be given to it in the growing season. — 

 Mexico. 



YlG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1751 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3804 ; Orchid Album, ii. t. 75 ; 

 Paxton, Mag. Bot., iv. 73, with tab. ; Garienflora, t. 140 (supeiba). 



L. aiLCeps alba, Bchb. f. — A remarkably chaste and beautiful 

 variety, in which the sepals and petals are broad and pure 

 white as in L. miceps Dawsoni, and the lip also is pure white, 

 with a pale yellow disk. It blossoms in December and 

 January. — Mexico. 



L. anceps Barkeriana, Lindley. — This is the deepest- 

 coloured variety of L. anceps. The sepals and petals are of 



