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peat, having some charcoal mixed with the peat, and having 

 also good drainage. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bet. Mag., t. 6038 ; Floral Mag., 2 sen, t. 177 ; Gard. Chron., 1872, 

 425, fig, 128. 



L. Leeana, Bchh. f. — This is a very dwarf-growing and 

 distinct Lcclia, supposed to be a natural hybrid. In growth it 

 somewhat resembles Cattleya mar (jinata, hut the pseudobulbs 

 and leaves are considerably longer. The floAvers are very 

 handsome, the sepals and petals being rosy magenta, and the 

 anterior lobe of the lip bright magenta-crimson. The lateral 

 lobes of the lip, which enclose the column, are pale rose 

 colour, having two magenta-crimson blotches at the tips. It 

 flowers in September. This plant has been named in honour 

 of W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead. — Native Country 

 not stated. 



L. Lindleyana, Hart. — A very distinct species both as 

 regards its flowers and its manner of growth. The stems are 

 slender elongate terete, about eight inches high, with whitish 

 spathaceous bracts, and the one or two leaves are linear- 

 lanceolate, fleshy, and channelled like those of Brassavola 

 venosa. The flowers are solitary, terminal, on long deflexed 

 peduncles, upwards of five inches across ; the sepals and 

 petals linear-lanceolate, blush white ; the lip, with very short 

 rosy tinted basal lobes, the intermediate one an inch and a 

 half long, Bubrotund, concave, blush white, the apical part 

 with deeper rosy flabellate veins and with a series of oblong 

 spots along the centre in the upper half. It blooms at 

 difierent times of the year, principally autumn and winter, 

 and continues in perfection six weeks. — Brazil : Bahia. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6449 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 175, 

 Syn. — Cattleya Lindleyana. 



L. majalis, Lindley. — This is a glorious plant, one of the 

 finest of the genus, or perhaps one of the most striking of all 

 known Orchids. It is of dwarf habit, with ovate or roundish 

 pseudobulbs, leathery oblong solitary leaves, and one or two- 

 flowered peduncles bearing immense flowers, measuring 

 between seven and eight inches across from the tip of the 

 dorsal to the tips of the lateral sepals, which are lanceolate, 

 four inches long, of a delicate lilac-rose, the petals being twice 

 as broad, oblong-lanceolate, and of the same colour ; while 

 the lip is three-lobed, the side lobes small, white inside, with 

 magenta-purple stripes, the middle lobe large rounded emar- 



