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miuated by a solitary terete recurved fleshy leaf, which is 

 grooved on the upper side. The peduncle with a solitary 

 flower rises from the base of the leaf, the flower itself having 

 a very long pedunculiform ovary. The sepals and petals are 

 linear-oblong, white, and the lip has two very short lateral 

 lobes, and an oblong front lobe nearly as long as the petals, 

 white, streaked with purple on the disk ; it blooms during 

 the winter months, lasting four weeks in beauty. — Brazil. 

 I'IG.—Bot. Reg., t. 1625 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3734 (glaucous var.). 



L. serrulata, LimUey. — A charming little plant, in the way 

 of L. hicolor ; the flowers being nearly the same in colour, the 

 chief difi'erence being that they are considerably larger — as 

 much as three or four times larger. The stems are sometimes 

 two-leaved, the cylindrical fusiform grooved leaves glaucous 

 green, dotted with purple, the scapes terminal and axillary, 

 purple, bearing the large stellate flowers on very long stalk- 

 like ovaries ; the sepals and petals are white, and the lip white, 

 with lines of brilliant lake radiating from the base, where it 

 has two short rounded auricles. It blooms in April and 

 May, and lasts three weeks in perfection. — Brazil. 



YiG.—Sertum Orchid., t. 11. 



LiMATODIS, Bhime. 

 ( Tribe Epidendreaj, subtribe Bletieas.) 



A small genus of beautiful terrestial Orchids related to 

 Phaius, in which it is included by Bentham ; it also closely 

 resembles Calanthe. The flowers have a spurred lip rolled 

 around the column, from which it is free, and which, accord- 

 ing to the authors of Genera Plantarum, is two-winged. It 

 includes some species of a highly ornamental character. By 

 a slip of the pen Lindley formerly wrote the name Limatodes, 

 but has corrected it in the Folia Orchidacea. They are all 

 Eastern, being found in Java, Sumatra, India, and China. 



Culture. — During the growing season these plants require 

 a liberal supply of water at the roots — in fact, they should 

 be kept watered till they come into flower. After they 



