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pale sulphur with purplish spots on the edges of the lobes, 

 and has a tongue-shaped appendage. — Peru : Caraccas. 



FiG.—AnnaJes de Gand, 1848, t. 221. 

 Stn. — Maxillaria macrophylla, 



L, plana, Lindley. — A rather showy species, with large 

 ovate-oblong ribbed pseudobulbs, bold oval lanceolate plicate 

 leaves, and handsome flowers some three and a half inches 

 across, having flat oblong spreading sepals of a fine madder 

 red, smaller white petals, with a rosy crimson blotch, having 

 in it an eye-like spot of white on their recurved tips, and a 

 still smaller white lip spotted with rosy crimson, the roundish 

 front lobe serrated, and the appendage oblong blunt and 

 obsoletely three-lobed. We saw this plant well flowered in 

 the collection of R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham. 

 Mr. Measures also has a variety with a pure white lip, and 

 another with a bright rose-coloured lip. It flowers during the 

 winter. — Bolivia. 

 'ElG.—Bot. Reg., 1843, t. 35. 



L. ScMlleriana, Hchb. f. — A free-growing plant, with 

 the habit of L. (jigantea, but a more desirable species. The 

 pseudobulbs and foliage are like those of L. Skinneri, but the 

 leaves are more erect. The scapes supporting the flowers are 

 about six inches in height. The sepals are spreadmg, about 

 four inches long, greenish brown, the petals smaller, very 

 pure white, converging over the base of the lip, the latter 

 being pure white in front, and with a slight tinge of yellow at 

 the base. The flowers are set on the stalk as in L. Skinneri, 

 that is, they look the observer in the face, and not as in L. 

 gigantea, in which they look down at the pot in which the 

 plant is growing. — Central America. 



L, Skinneri, Lindley. — A beautiful and free-flowering 

 species, and one of the most striking ornaments of our 

 Orchid houses. It has oblong-ovate compressed pseudobulbs, 

 oblong-lanceolate membraneous plaited leaves, and single- 

 flowered radical scapes like most of the other species. The 

 flowers are very large, five to six inches across, and of a 

 fleshy texture, the sepals oblong-lanceolate acute, spreading, 

 blush white, the petals are about half the length, ovate, erect, 

 convolute over the column, with the tips reflexed, more or less 

 deeply tinted with rose, and the lip is three-lobed, the middle 

 lobe roundish ovate deflexed, wavy at the edge, white spotted 



