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0. Lawrenceamim. — See Odontoglossum Insleayi. 



0. Leeanum, Ilc/ib. f. — A very distinct and handsome plant, 

 probably a wild hybrid, named in honour of W. Lee, Esq., 

 Downside, Leatherhead. The pseudobulbs are ovate com- 

 pressed diphyllous, the leaves oblong ligulate acute, and the 

 scape radical, bearing an erect many-flowered raceme. The 

 flowers are of the stellate form, three and a half inches across ; 

 the sepals and petals are lanceolate acuminate, bright yellow 

 margined with orange, and spotted all over with small dots of 

 rich reddish brown, the petals having each an open eye-like 

 spot of clear yellow ; the oblong acuminate lip is pale yellow, 

 deeper at the base and apex, having a large brownish crimson 

 blotch towards the front, and a few marginal spots ; the 

 disk bears a thick linear keel, which extends into two rhom- 

 boidal toothletted lamellae. It flowers during the winter 

 months. — Xeiv Grenada. 



Fig.— Orchid Album, iii. t. 101. 



0. Lindeni, Lindley. — A stout-growing species, which was 

 first flowered by H. J. Buchan, Esq., of Southampton. The 

 plant has tall pear-shaped pseudobulbs, erect ensiform 

 leaves nearly a foot long, and a flower scape two to three 

 feet high, the uniform lateral branches bearing five to seven 

 flowers, which form a regular unilateral series directed up- 

 wards. The flowers are about one and a half inch across, 

 of an uniform lemon-yellow, the sepals and petals clawed 

 lanceolate acute and much undulated, the lip ovate lanceolate 

 with an angular base, and a crest of two terete calli, which 

 are emarginate in front. It blooms during the summer 

 months. — New Grenada. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 333. 



0. Lindleyamim, Rchh. f. et Warsccw. — A distinct species, 

 with ovate oblong compressed pseudobulbs, linear lanceolate 

 acute leaves, and slender flexuose peduncles bearing a raceme 

 of stellate flowers, which measure about three inches in 

 depth, and consist of linear lanceolate acuminate sepals and 

 petals, cuneate at the base, jellow with an elongate bar of 

 cinnamon brown over half an inch long at the base, followed 

 by a large roundish spot of the same, the apex speckled with 

 small dots ; the lip, which is prominent, and three-lobed in 

 the middle part, has the base connate with the horned column, 

 and the projected front part deflexed linear lanceolate, brown 



