370 oechid-growek's manual. 



from a linear-oblong compressed bract. The flowers are 

 three to four inches across, the sepals and petals oblong- 

 ligulate undulated, with the sides rolled back, yellow, more or 

 less flushed with olive. green, the lip cucuUate, divided into 

 three obtuse and shallow lobes at the apex, deep yellow with 

 a broad front border of white, the disk marked by a few 

 crimson-purple veins, which are flat and not raised like a 

 crest as in the allied L. fiava. It flowers during May and 

 June, and lasts for three weeks in beauty. There are two 

 varieties of this species, one with much larger flowers than the 

 other. — Brazil. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. olU ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 180 ; Orchid 

 Album, i. t. 23. 



LelIOPSIS, Lindley. 

 {Tribe Epidendrese, subtribe Laeliese.) 



A small genus of pseudobulbous epiphytes, which have a 

 terminal inflorescence, petals larger than the sepals, and a lip 

 shortly adnate with the base of the column, over which its 

 lateral lobes are folded. The latter organ is spurless, sessile, 

 convolute, of membranaceous texture, with its veins bearded, 

 the latter peculiarities separating the genus from Cattleya 

 according to Lindley, by whom it was founded. The few 

 species recorded, three or four in number, are West Indian. 



Culture. — This very scarce plant is best grown on a block 

 suspended from the roof, and under these conditions requires 

 a good supply of water at the roots during the growing season. 

 It requires rather a warm temperature while growing, and 

 afterwards appears in a state of nature to become almost 

 shrivelled with drought. In its habit of growth it is much 

 like Broughtonia sanguinea. 



L. domingensis, Lindleg. — A pretty dwarf slender evergreen 

 species, compact in gi'owth, with short oblong pseudobulbs, 

 bearing two oblong obtuse leathery leaves about three inches 

 long, and a slender scape from the top of the bulb, attainiug a 

 height of twelve inches, and bearing a raceme of about eight 



