378 orchid-gbower's manual. 



L. Deppei pimctatissima, Echh. f. — A very large-flowered 

 and distinct variety, in which the sepals and petals are green- 

 ish white covered with innumerable purple spots, and the lip 

 is yellow with dark purple radiating lines on the side lobes, 

 and five blotches of the same colour on the anterior lobe. It 

 flowers during the winter months. — Guatemala. 



L. fulvescens, Hook. — An interesting species, with large 

 broadly ovate pseudobulbs, somewhat membraneous plicate 

 lanceolate leaves two or more from their top, and handsome 

 tawny yellow flowers on slender radical scapes. The flowers 

 have lanceolate sepals two and a half inches long, the lateral 

 ones falcate connate at the base into a blunt spur ; the petals 

 are similar but slightly smaller ; and the orange -coloured lip 

 is oblong, three-lobed, with an emarginate appendage on the 

 disk, and an ovate obtuse front lobe, beautifully fringed at the 

 margin with wavy hairs. — Columbia. 

 Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4193. 



L. gigantea, Lindley. — A stately-growing plant, of which 

 there are several varieties, some of which are inferior in 

 beauty, though the best are well deserving a place with 

 L. Skinneri. It has oblong-ovate smooth pseudobulbs some 

 five or six inches high, bearing two or three large oblong- 

 lanceolate acuminate plicate leaves from one to two feet long. 

 The scapes are proportionately stout, and bear a solitary 

 flower, which measures from tip to base fully six inches, and as 

 much across ; the sepals and petals are of a warm olive-green, 

 the latter being rather the shorter, and the lip is oblong-lanceo- 

 late, three-lobed, the middle lobe panduriform, serrated at the 

 edge, of a rich maroon-purple with a warm border of orange ; 

 the appendage to the lip is a transverse saddle-shaped emar- 

 ginate callus. It blooms during the winter months. — Central 

 America; New Grenada. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5616; Baiem. Ind Cent. Orcli. PI, t. 198; Bot. Reg., 

 1845, t. 34 ; Annahs de Gand, 1845, t. 9. 

 Syn. — Maxillaria Heynderyxii. 



L. Harrisonise, Hort. — An old and undeservedly neglected 

 species, with pyriform tetragonal pseudobulbs bearing a single 

 large oblong-lanceolate plaited leaf. The scape is one, sometimes 

 two-flowered, the flowers large, measuring some three inches 

 in diameter ; the sepals and petals large and fleshy, creamy 

 white, the lateral sepals being attenuated into a spur-like base ; 

 the lip purple, yellowish at the base, and marked with purple 



