ginate, purplish lilac at the sides, white in the centre, marked 

 with bold divergent blotches forming broken lines of magenta- 

 purple. Native name Flor de Mayo. It blooms with the 

 young growth during the summer months, and lasts five or 

 six weeks in beauty. This plant is rather diflficult to flower 

 in some collections, but we have bloomed it successively for 

 several years. We keep it rather dry and cool during the 

 winter, and give it plenty of water during the growing season. 

 It is best grown near the glass suspended from the roof, with 

 little shade. — Mexico. 



'FlG.—Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 30 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5667 ; Bateni. Orcli. Mex. et 

 Guat., t. 23 ; Jennings, Orch., t. 41 ; Paxton, Mag, Bot xii. 1, with tab. 

 Syk. — Cattleyi Grahami; Bletia speciosa ; B. grandijlora. 



L, monopliylla, N. E. Brown. — A very distinct and pretty 

 dwarf-habited species, resembling a Masdevallia in its growth. 

 It has a creeping rhizome and no pseudobulbs, but short 

 slender erect stems as thick as a crow quill, dotted with rosy 

 red, and having sheathing bracts. The leaves are solitary, 

 narrow linear-oblong and bluntish, of leathery texture, deep 

 green on the upper surface ; and the continuation of the stem, 

 which rises from six to ten inches high, bears a solitary 

 flower, two inches across, of a vivid orange-scarlet, the sepals 

 and petals being alike oblong and subacute, and the lip minute, 

 yellow, enclosing the column, which just shows its purple 

 anther-cap beyond. It blossoms in September and October. 

 —Jamaica, 3,000—5,000 feet altitude. 



'Eld.— Bot. Mag., t. 6683. 



Stn. — Trigonidium monophyllum ; Octadesmia monophylla. 



L. peduncularis, LindUy. — A charming compact-habited 

 evergreen plant, with the habit of L. acuminata. The 

 pseudobulbs are roundish ovate, compressed, rugosely 

 wrinkled, bearing from the top a solitary oblong-obtuse 

 leaf, and a slender scape ten inches or a foot high, ter- 

 minating in a corymbiform raceme of handsome rosy magenta 

 flowers, of which the sepals are lanceolate, and the petals 

 oblong-ovate, undulated, and the lip is prominent, three- 

 lobed, the lateral lobes short, the centre one oblong, rounded 

 and recurved at the apex, of the same colour as the sepals, 

 except that there is a distinct pm-ple- crimson spot in the 

 throat, and a small patch of creamy white just in front of it. 

 It requires to be grown on a block or basket ; blooms during 

 the winter months, and lasts about a fortnight in perfection. 



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