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blossoms of a pretty, rose-lilac colour, and produced at different 

 times of the year, continuing in beauty for five weeks at a 

 time. The throat is pallid, traversed by hairy veins, of 

 which the middle one is brownish yellow and the rest pur- 

 plish. — St. Domingo. 



¥lG.—Gard. Mag. Bot., iii, 201, with tab.; Faxt. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 105; 

 Lemaire, Jard. FL, t. 172. 



Syn. — Cattleya domingensis ; Broughtonia Ulacina; B. violacea, 



LeptoTES, Lindleij. 

 ( Ti'ibe EpidendrejE, subtribe Lseliese.) 



A small genus consisting of dwarf and compact- growing 

 epiphytal pseudobulbous plants, with curious evergreen terete 

 foliage channelled on the upper side, and flowering from the 

 top of the pseudobulb. It is referred to Tetramicra by 

 Bentham. One peculiarity of the plant is the small auricle- 

 like lateral lobes of the lip. They are of Brazilian origin. 



Culture. — These plants 

 are of easy culture, and will 

 do either on blocks or in 

 pots with peat suspended 

 from the roof. They are 

 very accommodating, for 

 they will grow in either 

 house, requiring a liberal 

 supply of water in the 

 growing season. They are 

 propagated by dividing the 



L. ticolor, Lindleij. — A 

 neat and pretty epiphyte, 

 with a creeping rhizome, 

 from which grow up several 

 slender stems, which are 

 about an inch long, and 

 almost cylindrical, and ter- 



LEPT0TE3 BICOLOR. 



