430, orchid-grower's manual. 



L. ANCEPS GRANDIFLORA, Williams.— This variety has very large highly- 

 coloured flowers of fine form and substance. The growth of the plant is 

 altogether stronger than in the ordinary L. anceps, and the flowers are about 

 half tas, large .again, and better coloured.— J/eajico. 



Fig.— Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, iii. p. 105, f . 17. 



L. ANCEPS HILLIANA, iBcA6./.— A very .delicate and beautiful form, having 

 white sepals and petals, a yellowish lip, the front parts of the three lobes being 

 of a soft blush, pink; the disk deep orange, sometimes having dark purple- 

 crimson markings in the throat; the lip instead of being acute is.bi-lobed or 

 emarginate. This is named in honour of 0. J. Hill, Esq., of Nottingham, an 

 enthusiastic collector of this class of plants. — Mexico. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iv. 1. 146 ; L' III . JSoi-t., xxxiii. t. 584 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 

 1887, 1. p. 425, f. 83. 



L. ANCEPS KIENASTIANA, Rchh. /.— " This would be;£. anceps Bawsoni 

 itself were.it not for the rosy hue of the fine broad petals, the edges of the side 

 laciniae too, are of a fine rosy colour. It is named after, Herr Consul Kienast 

 ZoUy, of Zurich " {Oardeners' Ghronicle, N.S., 1886, xxv.p. 298). - . 



L. ANCEPS LEUCOSTICTA, Bchh.f.— "This has long white or whitish-rosy 

 markings on the darker rosy sepals and petals ; they are usually either broad 

 linear, triangular, or short elliptical. It was , flowered , by Mr. Greenfield, 

 Beechwood Park, Dunstable" (Reichenbach in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., 1885, 

 xxiii. p. 206). 



L. ANCEPS OBSCURA, Rchh. /.—This distinct variety has long dark- 

 coloured sepals and petals,- the former being white at the base. The disk 

 of the lip is dark orange, and the anterior lobe deep purple. 



L. ANCEPS PERCIVALIANA, Rchh. /.—A very distinct and pretty variety 

 named in honour of the late E. P. Percival, Esq., Southport. Its leaves are some- 

 what narrower than in the type, and very pointed, and the fiowers are freely 

 produced ; the sepals and petals are blush-pink as in the ordinary forms, but the 

 lip, which is truncate, not acute, has the lateral angles of the warmest mauve- 

 purple, while the, anterior portion is of a bright purple-magenta only , at the 

 extreme anterior third, the posterior two-thirds being white; the disk is light 

 orange, with the ..tips of the three crests, sulphur-yellow, and there are some 

 strong dark purple lines over the nerves of the disk. — Mexico. 



Fig-. — Orchid Album, vi. t. 256 ; Meichenbachia, i. t. 86. 



L. ANCEPS ROSEA, Bchh. /.• — ^A very pleasing and distinct variety, in 

 which the flowers have pale rose-coloured sepals and petals, and the. lip is large, 

 and of a bright rosy-magenta colour ; the throat is pale yellow, and the dark line 

 usually seen in the species is entirely wanting. — Mexico. 



L. .ANPEPS SANDERIA.NA, . Rchh. /.—A beautiful and distinct variety, 

 nearest to L. anceps BaiMoni, but the petals are not so broad, and the lip is not 



