368 ORCHID- grower's manual. 



Esq., of Albany, New York, U.S.A., under the care of Mr. 

 Gray, the gardener. It flowers during May and June, lasting 

 from three to four weeks in perfection. — Brazil: Bahia. 



'Fig.— Orchid Album, i. t. 2. 



L. Stelzneriana, Bchh. /. — This species is allied to L. 

 elegans, which it resembles in growth, but is scarcely so robust. 

 The flowers are somewhat smaller than those of that plant, 

 having pure white sepals and petals, the latter much broader 

 than the former, and the lip, the lobes of which are unusually 

 short, of a blush white, the throat being yellowish white, the 

 front lobe undulated and purple-crimson, this colour being 

 continued along the edge as far as the tips of the side lobes. 

 It blooms in May and June. — Brazil. 

 Fig.— Flore des Serres, tt. 1494-5. 



L. SUperMens, Lindley. — A noble Orchid, one of the finest 

 of the genus. It is rather a large-growing plant, with fusi- 

 form stems, bearing a pair of oblong acute rigid leathery 

 leaves at the top. The flower scape is three to nine 

 feet high, having sometimes on one scape from fourteen to 

 twenty blossoms, often measuring seven inches across. These 

 flowers have the sepals and petals of a beautiful deep rose, 

 somewhat paler towards the base ; and the lip has the side 

 lobes deep crimson in front, yellowish at the sides above the 

 fold over the column, the disk yellow, with a crest of five large 

 subserrate deeper orange j^ellow lamellas, truncate in front ; 

 the middle lobe is oblong emarginate, of a rich deep crimson, 

 flabellately veined with deeper crimson. It blooms during 

 the winter months, and continues long in beauty. The 

 finest plant we ever saw of this was in the Horticultural 

 Gardens at Chiswick ; it sometimes produced as many as nine 

 clusters of its beautiful flowers at one time ; the plant was 

 four feet across, with the flowering stems seven feet in height, 

 and was in perfect health. — Mexico : Guatemala. 



Fig.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PL, i., t. 20; Batem. Orch. Mex. et Guat, t. 38; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 4090 ; Faxton, Mag, Bot., xi. 97, with tab. ; I lore des Serres, 

 tt. 1178-9. 



L. Turneri, Warner. — This is a magnificent plant of the L. 

 elegans section, from the type of which, however, it proves 

 quite distinct in its larger flowers, richer colours, and in the 

 difi'erent form of the lobes of the lip. The stems are elongated, 

 terete, clavate, and the leaves in pairs, oblong, leathery, a foot 

 long. The flowers measure upwards of six inches across ; 



