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lip having a lovely purple spot on its base; they vary, however, in colour, 

 some being almost pure white, some pencilled with rose, and some white and 

 yellow. According to Descourtilz, the scentless flowers remain fresh in their 

 native forests from September or October till the following May. There is 

 a variety inaxima with much larger flowers. — Brazil. 



Fig. — Sot. Mag., t. 5541 ; Lindenia, iii. t. 114 (var. maxima). 



I. TENERA.— See I. uteicclaeioides. 



1. UTRICULARIOIDES, Lindl. — This species, though seldom seen in culti- 

 vation, is very pretty. " Flowers racemose white with a pink stain at the base of 

 the lip ; sepals and petals acute, sub-equal ; lip pubescent ; limb bi-lobed, much 

 longer than the sepal." — Tropical America. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 1904. 



Ipse A, Lmdley. 



{Tribe Epidendreae, suhtrihe Erieae.) 

 This small group of two species only is sometimes referred to 

 Pachystoma. The Ijpseas are terrestrial plants, with tuberous rhizomes, 

 leafless scapes, and narrow lanceolate plaited leaves. The lateral sepals 

 are oblique at the base, connate with the foot of the column, and saccate ; 

 the lip is three-lobed, the lateral lobes large erect, and the middle one 



oblong obtuse with the disk 

 obtusely keeled. They come 

 from Ceylon and India. 



Culture. — The same as that 

 recommended for Bletia. 



I. SPECIOSA, Lindl— This is 

 a beautiful terrestrial finely pu- 

 bescent Orchid, with somewhat 

 the habit of a B/eiia. The rhizomes 

 are tuberous, terrestrial, fleshy, 

 as large as or larger than a nut, 

 fascicled, sub-globose with conical 

 tops, from whence grow the slender 

 lanceolate ribbed leaves 6 or 8 

 inches long ; from their base arise 

 the leafless erect scapes, each fur- 

 nished with several large flowers 

 of a uniform rich orange-yellow, marked by several parallel lines of reddish-orange 

 on the disk, which lines indicate the position of several bluntly keeled crests 

 which are there developed. — Ceylon. 



IPSEA SPECIOSA. 



(From the Gardeners' Chronicle.') 



