4 LISSOCHILUS. 



the shallow pools of stagnant water round their hases, and filling up 



the foreground of the high purple-green forest with a blaze of tender 



peach-like colour." 



Tlie merit of introducing it into European gardens is due to 



M. Auguste Linden^ who brought it from the Congo in 1887. Its 



first flowering in this country at Burford Lodge, in May, 1888, 



and subsequent appearance at a meeting of the Royal Horticultural 



Society, was an event of unusual interest. We are indebted to 



Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., for materials for description. 



L, Horsfallii. 



" Leaves lanceolate, narrowed beloAV into a channelled petiole, 2 — 3 

 feet long. Scapes as long again as the leaves, terminating in a 

 somewhat dense, many-flowered raceme ; bracts sheathing, ovate-acute ; 

 sepals lanceolate, acuminate, an inch long, bent backwards, purplish 

 brown ; petals spreading, sub-quadrate, obtuse, white suffused with rose ; 

 lip funnel-shaped at the base, three-lobed, the lateral lobes large, erect, 

 rounded, green streaked with crimson-purple, the intermediate lobe ovate, 

 obtuse, of a deep puce colour, with three whitish elevated ridges on 

 the disk which extend to the liase. Column short, semi-terete, two- 

 toothed at the apex." — Botanical Magazine. 



Lissochilus Horsfallii, Batem. in Bot. Mag. t. 5486 (1865). 



A stately species sent from Old Calabar to Mr. Horsfall, of 



Bellamour Hall, Staffordshire, in whose collection it flowered in 



October, 1864. It is now probably lost to cultivation, but the 



mention of it in this place may help to preserve it from oblivion. 



L. Krebsii. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid or elliptic-oblong, 1| — 3 inches long, marked with 

 concentric scars. Leaves about six to each pseudo-bulb, elliptic- 

 lanceolate, acuminate, sheathing at the base, the longest 18 — 24 inches 

 long. Scapes stoutish, erect, 4 — 5 feet high, terminating in a loose 

 raceme of 20 — 30 or more flowers, the rachis continuing to lengthen 

 and produce flowers after the lowermost have expanded ; bracts 

 lanceolate, acuminate, as long as the ovaries. Flowers 1^ inch in 

 diameter ; sepals spathulateoblong, apiculate, keeled behind, reflexed, 

 reddish brown mottled with green ; petals broadly oval, obtuse, bright 

 buttercup-yellow ; lip three-lobed, saccate l^etween the lateral lobes 

 which are roundish and ascending, red-brown on the inside, yellow 

 externally ; the intermediate lol)e sub-orbicular, emarginate, folded in 

 the middle, bright yellow with two purple lateral lilotches ; spur short, 

 obtuse. Column semi-terete, cream-white. 



Lissochilus Krebsii, Rchb. in Linnsea, XX. yt. 685 (1847). Bot. Mag. t. 5861. 



