26 CHYSIS. 



on the basal half of the lip are five slightly divergent fleshy ridges. 

 Column white above, yellow beneath. 



Chysis bractescens, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 131. Jd. 1841, t. 23. Bot. 



Mag. t. 5186. Van Houtte's Fl. dcs Serves, FIT. t. 675. Illus. hort. 2ncl ser. 



t. 398. Sander's Jieichenbachia I. t. 18. 



Introduced from Mexico by Mr. Barker, of Birmingliain, in whose 

 stoves it flowered for the first time in 1840. It has since been 

 frequently received from Cordova, in the province of Vera Cruz, and 

 from Tabasco, where it grows under similar conditions and in the 

 same way as Ghysis aurea. Its flowering season is March and April. 

 The large bracts and cream-white flowers chiefly distinguish this 

 species from all the others in cultivation. 



0. Isevis. 



Steiiis club-shaped, 12 — 18 inches long. Leaves ovate -lanceolate, acumi- 

 nate, spreading, shorter than the stems. Kacemes 9 — 12 flowered; flowers 

 2^ inches in diameter. Sepals oblong, the dorsal one inflexed, the 

 lateral two falcate and spreading, tawny yellow tinged with brown at 

 the base ; petals similar but paler in colour ; lip three-lobed, the side 

 lobes folding over the colunui, pale yellow streaked with red on the 

 inner side, the middle lobe sub-orbicular with crisped margin, bright 

 yellow with five white raised lines on the disk that are confluent towards 

 the base. Column pale yellow spotted with red on the side facing 

 the lip, 



Chysrs laevis, Liudl. Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. 130. Batem. Orch. Mcx. et Guat. t. 31. 

 Illus. hort. t. 365 (1863). Warner's Sel. Orch. II. t. 14. 



Introduced from Mexico about the same time as the preceding, by 

 Mr. Barker, in whose collection at Springfield, near Birmingham, it 

 flowered for the first time in 1840. It is distinguished from Chysis 

 aurea by its longer stems furnished with more leaves, by its larger 

 flowers with a differently-formed lip which is not downy, and by 

 its flowering later in the year. 



0. Limminghei. 



Stems, leaves, and inflorescence as in Chysis aurea, but somewhat smaller 

 in aU their parts. Flowers 2 inches in diameter ; sepals and petals 

 oval-oblong, white, the sepals with a pale and the petals with a bright 

 purple apical blotch ; side lobes of lip incurved towards the column, 

 reddish purple and yellow on the inner side, pale bufi'-yellow externally ; 

 middle lobe oval-oblong, emarginate, bright purple, streaked with white. 

 Column cymbiform, white above, yellow spotted with red on the side 

 opposite the lip. 



Chysis Limminghei, Lind. et Rchb. in Otto et Diet. Allg. Gart. Zeit. 1858. Illits. 

 hort. 1860, t. 240. Warner's Sel. Orch I. t. 34. C. aurea, var. Limminghei, Bot, 

 Ma(j. t. 5265 (Lemminghei). Hemsley, Biolog. Cent. Amer. IIL p. 216. 



