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diameter. The sepals and petals are bright rose colour, 

 and the whole of the lip of an intense magenta-crimson. — 

 Guatemala. 



L, Skinneri SUperba, Moore. — A splendid variety, of a very 

 showy character, and very distinct. The flowers are large 

 and attractive, the sepals being of a delicate rose or deep 

 blush, deeper at the base, the petals are intense rich rosy 

 crimson, and the lip white, with a blotch of crimson on each 

 of the lateral lobes, and having the tongue-like appendage 

 clear yellow. — Guatemala. 



'Eld— Floral Mag., t. 24. 



L. Skinneri vestalis, Williams. — A remarkably fine variety, 

 with flowers seven inches across, almost rivalling those of L. 

 Skinneri alba in purity of colouring. The sepals, which are 

 an inch and three-quarters wide, are pure white, the petals are 

 also white, with a faint venation of pale rose on the inner 

 face, and the lip is pure white, with very faint markings of 

 pale rose. — Guatemala. 



L. Smeeana, Echb. /. — A very interesting plant, which it 

 has been suggested is probably a hybrid between L. Skinneri 

 and L. Deppei, to which latter it bears considerable resem- 

 blance in its pseudobulbs and manner of growth. The colour 

 of the flower is white, excepting the lip, which is bordered 

 with light purple and spotted over its entire surface. The 

 appendage of the lip is short, with an obscure central keel. 

 It was fii'st flowered by A. H. Smee, Esq., Carshalton, and 

 was named in compliment to him by Prof. Keichenbach. It 

 flowers during the autumn and winter months. — Guatemala. 



MaCODES* Blume. 

 (Tribe Neottieffi, suhtribe Si^irantheje.) 



A beautiful genus of variegated tropical Orchids, allied to 

 Ancectochilus, which it closely resembles, but from which it 

 differs in its spurless sessile lip, with a three-lobed limb, the 

 front lobe of which is linear spathulate. The only species is a 

 native of Java. 



Culture. — The treatment is in every respect similar to that 

 oi Ancectochilus, which see. 



