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have done blooming they must be rested by withholding 

 water. They do well in the East Indian house, and should 

 be grown in pots with peat, leaf mould, and sand, being potted 

 in the same manner as Calanthe vestita, which they resemble 

 in growth ; they also flower about the same time as that 

 equally useful Orchid. They are propagated by dividing 

 the pseudobulbs just when they begin to grow. 



L. roSGa, Lindlcy. — A charming winter-flowering Orchid, of 

 which there are many varieties. We have had five in flower 

 at the same time, diflering more or less from each other in 

 their colour, which varied from white to dark rose and pink, 

 with diflerent intermediate shades of rose. We have few 

 plants that are more valuable for decorative purposes during 

 the dull season than this Limatodis, and it may be had in 

 flower for months together. It is a deciduous plant, with 

 fusiform pseudobulbs five or six inches long, much swollen 

 at the base, and terminated by broadly lanceolate mem- 

 braneous ribbed leaves. The flower scapes proceed from the 

 base of the pseudobulbs, and are nodding, attaining a height 

 of one or two feet, bearing many flowers, which are usually 

 of a pleasing shade of rose-pink, with a flat oblong Hp, the 

 side lobes of which are white, rolled over the column, and 

 having a white throat surrounded by a well-defined ring of 

 rich deep rose. The pseudobulbs, which are of a pale 

 brownish or greyish colour, are curiously constricted in the 

 middle part, as seen in some forms of Calanthe vestita. — 

 Mouhnein. 



Fig.— Paxt. Fl. Gard., iii. t. 81 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5312. 



LiSSOCHILUS, Eobert Brown. 

 {Tribe Vandese, subtribe Eulophiefe.) 



Tropical Orchids of terrestrial habit, some of which are 

 of a very ornamental character. The flowers have the petals 

 larger than the sepals, and spreading, and the lip is saccate 

 at the base or produced into a conical spur. The leaves are 

 plicate, and the flower scape is leafless. There are about 



