OO'Z ORCHID-OEOWER S MANUAL. 



L. anceps Hilliana, Rchb. f. — A very delicate and beautiful 

 form, having white sepals and petals, a yellowish lip, the 

 front parts of the three lobes being of a soft blush pink ; the 

 disk deep orange, sometimes having dark purple-crimson 

 markings in the throat. The lip instead of being acute is 

 bilobed or emarginate. This is named in honour of C. J. 

 Hill, Esq., of Nottingham, an enthusiastic collector of this 

 class of plants. — Mexico. 

 Fig.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 146. 



L. anceps Percivalliaiia, Rchb. f. — A very distinct and 

 pretty variety named in honour of R. P. Percival, Esq., 

 Southport. Its leaves are somewhat narrower than in the 

 type, and very pointed, and the flowers are freely produced. 

 The sepals and petals are blush pink as in the ordinary 

 forms, but the lip, which is truncate, not acute, has the 

 lateral angles of the warmest mauve-purple, while the 

 anterior portion is of a bright purple-magenta only at the 

 extreme anterior third, the posterior two-thirds being white ; 

 the disk is light orange, with the tips of the three crests 

 sulphur-yellow, and there are some strong dark purple lines 

 over the nerves of the disk. — Mexico. 



L. anceps rosea, Rchb. f. — A very pleasing and distinct 

 variety, in which the flowers have pale rose-coloured sepals 

 and petals, and the lip is large, and of a bright rosy magenta 

 colour ; the throat is pale yellow, and the dark line usually 

 seen in the species is entirely wanting. — Mexico. 



L. anceps VeitcMana, Rchb. f. — We saw this distinct 

 plant well flowered in the collection of Baron Schroder, The 

 Dell, Staines, in January, 1884. The sepals and petals are 

 white, suffused with lilac, the petals being about an inch 

 across in the centre ; the lip is white, its front part and the 

 angles of the side lobes violet-purple, after the style of L. a. 

 PercivalUana; the crests of the disk are yellow, and the throat 

 striped with brownish purple. It blooms in January and 

 February. — Mexico . 



L. anceps vestalis, Rchb. f. — A very lovely white-flowered 

 variety, distinct both from Dawsoni and alba. The flowers 

 are large ; the sepals, broad petals, and lip pure white, with 

 a pale yellow disk, and a few purple lines in the throat. This 



