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placed in a cool dry place, until the proper time for repotting 

 comes round. There are a great many species, and all, with 

 but few exceptions, are natives of the Cape of Good Hope. 

 They are increased by divisions. 



L. luteola. — A beautiful plant, with a pair of dark green 

 oblong-lanceolate leaves, a stout peduncle, and closely-set 

 pendulous flowers of a uniform bright yellow, with the excep- 

 tion of the outer petals,, which are faintly tipped with green ; 

 it blooms in April. Cape of Good Hope. 



-L. Orchidioides. — This plant has two oblong-lanceolate 

 dark green leaves, profusely blotched with reddish brown ; 

 the peduncle is also spotted with the same colour. Flowers 

 large, ■ closely set, and occupying nearly the whole length, 

 straw colour and white, swe"et scented; it blooms in April 

 and May. There are many different coloured varieties of 

 this species. Cape of Good Hope. 



L. pendula. — Leaves erect, ovate-lanceolate, dark green ; 

 the peduncle is stout and spotted, and the flowers closely 

 set ; the outer petals are nearly the .length of the flowers, 

 with rounded points of an orange red colour, tipped with 

 green, the inner ones spreading at the mouth, and variegated 

 with purple and green; flowers La April. Cape of Good 

 Hope. 



L. quadricolor. — A most brilliant coloured species, with 

 long narrow pendulous channelled dark green leaves, one 

 being always longer than the other ; the peduncles are 

 slender, and the flowers pendulous, large, and widely set ; 

 the outer petals are short, bright red and orange in colour, 

 tipped with green, the inner ones orange yellow, spreading at 

 the mouth, where the colour is rosy purple ; it blooms during 

 February and March. Cape of Good Hope. 



L. quadricolor, var. maculata. — This differs, from the pre- 

 ceding in having its two unequal leaves, which bend over 



