428 orchidtGkower's manual. 



L. ANCEPS ALBA, Bchb. f. — A remarkably chaste and beautiful varietyi in 

 Tvhich the sepals and. petals are broad and pure white as in L. anceps Bwwgoni; 

 the lip is also pure white, with a pale yellow disk. It blossoms in December 

 and January. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Gard. Chran., 3rd sev., 1887, i. p. 485. f . 92 ; Gardening World, ix. p. 357. 



Syn. — L. anceps virginalis. 



L. ANCEPS AMESIANA, O'Brien— "The outline of this superb flower is 

 exactly that of L. anceps Dawsoni, and it has the same firm substance and 

 wax-like appearance of the petals, which are IJ inch in width, the flower in 

 its full expanse being 4 inches. The sepals and petals are pure white, with a 

 delicate pearly blush on the outer halves ; the sepals have at the apices an 

 emerald green dot, and the petals a crimson feather at the tips, after the - 

 manner of Oattleya Trianae BcuMiouseana " (J. O'Brien, in Oardeners' Chronicle, 

 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 660). 



¥lG.—Joiirii. of Ifort, 1S9S, xxvii. p. 505, f . 73. 



L. ANCEPS ASHWORTHIANA, Hort. Sander.— A lovely and chaste form 

 which was exhibited by Messrs. Sander & Co. before the Royal Horticultural 

 Society on January 16th, 1894. The sepals and petals are pure white, the 

 latter being very broad and flat ; the lip is white, veined in the throat with 

 lilac, front lobe pencilled sparingly with the same colour. 



Fia.— Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1894, xv. p. 103, f. 10 ; Journ. of Hort., 1894, xxviii. 

 p. 125, 1 19. 



L. ANCEPS BARKERIANA, Lindl. — This is one of the deepest-coloured 

 varieties of X. ancepa. The sepals and petals are a tint of deep purplish-rose 

 colour, and the lip, which is shorter and narrower than in the type, is of an 

 intense magenta-purple with a yellow disk. This variety has long been in 

 cultivation, but is nevertheless rare. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Bot.Ileg.,t. 1947 ; Flore des Serres,t.\\00 ; Knowles and Wegtc. Floral Cab., 

 t. 30 ; Reielwnbachia, i. t. 48 ; Gardening World, ix. p. 357. 



L. ANCEPS BLANDA, Bchh. f. — In this variety the sepals and petals are 

 white tinged with rose ; the median nerves of the sepals light green ; the 

 antetior lobe of the lip is emarginate, blunt, of a warm purple colour. 



L. ANCEPS DAWSONI, Anderson. — -This beautiful variety is a great acquisition 

 amongst our winter-flowering Orchids. It flowered for the first time in this 

 country in the autumn of 1867 with the late T. Dawson, Esq., at Meadow Banji, 

 Uddingston, N.B., then the great emporium for Orchid gems and novelties, and 

 again in January, 1868, in the collection of B. Wright, Esq., Gravelly Hill, 

 Birmingham, by whose gardener, Mr. Hodges, it was exhibited at South Ken- 

 sington. The special distinguishing character of the plant resides in the colour 

 of its flowers, which are produced two or three together on stems 2 feet long or 

 more, and in the breadth of its petals. The sepals and petals are pure white, and 

 the exterior of the lateral lobes of the lip is white, while the interior is clothed 

 with purple lines radiating from the base, the yellow crest under the column, 

 common to the species, being prominent ; the front or expanded portion of the 

 lip is undulating and recurved, white towards the lateral lobes, and deep rosy- 



