Plate 174. 



LUISIA PSYCHE 



Butt erjly -flowered Lnisia. 



Gen. Char. 8epala 



Pefnh 



disslmilia, tenuiora, ssepius longiora, patentissima vel fornicata. LahcUum indivisnm. Sfrpins 



cum columna continuum 



cavum et medio constrictum. Columna nana, carnosa, apoda. Stigma anticum, circulare, rubkUo 

 obtuso obsoleto. PolUnia 2, cereacea, postice excavata ; caudiculfi lata brcvi triangularis gluuJuiri 

 raembranaceu replicata. AntJiera subrotunda, 2-locularis, valvulis macilentibv-ncrbai q^iphjfrv, 

 cnulescmtes, eredm, juncece, AsioB et Americce tro;pic(E. Folia tcret la, ritjida. ™ 



Fl 



rmirascentes 



forni 



dorsum 



basi utrinque auriculato, ante auriculas a basi utrinque minute semicordato transverse obuvatc. 

 subacuto, limbo minute lobulato. Rch. Jil. in Oard. Chron. 

 LuisiA Psycbe. Reichenh. Jil. in Mold et Schleclit. Bot. Zeit. 1863, i^. 98, ct in Gard. Ch..>. 1805 



CNew Plants,' n. 312). Bot. Mag. t. 5558. 



The genus Luisia consists almost exclusively of inconspicuous, taper-leaved plants, 

 witli much the habit of Vanda teres. There are, however, a few exceptions to e 

 above rule, the most remarkable of which are an unintroduccd plant (the Lvma wlucn.s 

 of Lindley) the flowers of which resemble birds with narrow outspread wmgs, and the 

 species now figured for the first time, whose singular blossoms have quite an insect- i e 

 character. 



It was discovered in Burmah by the Rev. C. S. Parish, by whom n few bnng ^ 



. .,.« »c..u .o messrs. n.gn Low and Co., of the Clupton ISmscry I . w^^ 



aoscribed by Prof. Reichenbach, both in the ' Botanische Zeitunj; of IbOd, 



' Gardeners- Chronicle ' of 1865. It grows slowly, but is easily manage.!, anu 



freely during the spring and summer. 



Messrs. Hugh 



