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of moderate stature, with slender cyliodrical stems, each 

 terminated by a soUtary oblong-ligulate leaf, and from a com- 

 pressed pale brown sheath a peduncle with three or four 

 flowers, each four inches across. The variety blooms during 

 March and April. The sepals and petals are of a brilliant 

 cinnabar orange, and the lip is three-lobed, with the side 

 lobes yellow, folded over the column, their blunt anterior ends 

 spreading, and the central one rounded, denticulated, crispy, 

 and of a rich crimson hue, the discal part marked with crim- 

 son veins. — Garden hybrid. 

 Fi«. — Florist aiid Pomologist, 1874, 133, with tab. 



L. flaya, Lindlcy. — A very distinct species, which has 

 short ovate one or two-leaved pseudobuibs, flat leathery oblong 

 acute leaves, and an erect scape bearing a cylindraceous 

 raceme of eight or ten flowers, which are of a clear yellow, 

 and have the sepals and petals linear-oblong obtuse, and the 

 lip oblong, recurved, the side lobes plane, erect, veined with 

 crimson, the sessile middle lobe crispy, and the disk marked 

 by four elevated veins, divergent at the tips. The flowers 

 last three weeks in perfection. — Brazil. 



'EiG.—Bot. Reg., 1842, t. 62. 

 Syn. — L. caulescens. 



L. furfuracea, LindUy. — A showy species, resembling L. 

 autumnalis, but having the pseudobuibs ovate and furrowed, 

 and the narrow oblong erect acute leathery leaves solitary or 

 in pairs, and of a light green. The flowers are produced on 

 upright scapes, ten inches high, from the top of the bulb 

 during autumn, and are individually five inches in diameter ; 

 the sepals are lanceolate and very acuminate, the petals 

 subrhomboid and undulated, and the bilamellate lip three- 

 lobed ; the colour is a deep rose, the base of the lip being 

 white. This plant is somewhat difiicult to cultivate ; we find 

 it does well in pans with peat and good drainage, and sus- 

 pended near the glass in the cool house. — Mexico. 



YlG.—Bol. Mag., t. 3810 ; Bot. Reg., 1839, t. 26. 



L. gigantea, Warner. — This is one of the finest of the 

 genus, and is a free-growing and free-flowering plant, in 

 general habit like L. elegans, but having longer leaves. The 

 flowers measure six inches in diameter, and are produced four 

 or five on a scape in March and April, and continue in per- 

 fection for four or five weeks. The oblong-lanceolate sepals 



