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very much from each other in colour. There are some 

 twenty-five known species, which are found in Tropical 

 America and the West Indies. 



Culture. — The plants belonging to this genus are of easy 

 culture, if properly attended to with respect to water, of 

 which they require a liberal supply during the growing 

 season, especially L. Skinneri and its varieties. We have 

 seen specimens of this species bearing as many as fifty 

 blossoms, and producing a grand eff'ect. They should be 

 grown in a cool house, potted in peat, with good drainage, 

 and be liberally supplied with water during the growing 

 season ; they should, in fact, never be allowed to get dry at 

 the roots even while at rest. These plants will stand for a 

 very long time in flower in a sitting-room, and will continue 

 in full perfection, without the slightest injury arising there- 

 from, but they should be grown in the warmest end of the 

 cool house. They are propagated by division after floweriug. 



L. aromatica, Lindlcy. — A rather desirable species, on 

 account of its free- blooming habit and fragrance. It has 

 ovate compressed pseudobulbs, oblong lanceolate plicate leaves, 

 and numerous erect slender one-flowered scapes about four 

 inches high growing from the base of the pseudobulbs. The 

 flowers are golden yellow, greenish exteriorly, and the semi- 

 cylindraceous lip, which is spotted inside with orange, has the 

 front lobe cuneate serrulate at the tip, and bears in the middle 

 a large concave fleshy truncate appendage. — Mexico. 



YiG.—ffook. Exot. Fl., t. 219; Bot. Reg., t. 1871. 

 Syn. — Maxillaria aromatica; Colax aromatica. 



L. citrina, Hon. — A fine robust-growing species, with the 

 habit of L. Harrisonio'., and flowering about the same time. 

 The flowers are large, thick, and fleshy, and have the sepals 

 and petals lemon-colour, and the lip white marked with lilac. 

 It is a distinct and rare plant. — Brazil. 



L. Cobhiana, Rchh. f. — A curious and distinct plant having 

 long narrow pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish yellow, 

 the petals greenish white, and the lip white, distinctly fringed. 



