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flowers are solitary, terminal, on long deflexed peduncles, upwards of 5 inches 

 across ; the sepals and petals linear-lanceolate, blush-white ; the lip, with very 

 short rosy -tinted basal lobes, the intermediate one If inch long, sub-rotund, 

 concave, blush- white, the apical part with deeper rosy flabellate veins and with 

 a series of oblong spots along the centre in the upper half. It blooms at 

 different tiibes of the year, principally autumn and winter, and continues in 

 perfection six weeks. — Brazil : Bahia. 



¥16.— Sot. Mag., t. 5449; Datcm. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 175. 



Syn. — CattUya Lindieyana, 



L. LOBATA. — See Oattleya lobata. 



L. LUCASIANA, Rolfe.—K distinct Laelia, described by Mr. Rolfe in the 

 Orchid Review, i. p. 265, as follows : — " Scape few-flowered ; sepals and petals 

 spreading, linear-oblong, sub-obtuse, 12 to 14 lines long, 3 lines broad, light- 

 mauve purple ; lip three-lobed ; side lobes convolute, broadly oblong, sub-obtuse, 



7 lines long, 3 lines broad ; front lobe reflexed, obovate-elliptical, obtuse, very 

 undulate, 4 lines broad, deep yellow, with the front half primrose, the lower 

 part of the disk and side lobes deeply stained with maroon ; column 3 lines long, 

 light green, its face stained with dull purple-brown." It was flowered by Sir 

 Trevor Lawrence, Bart., and 0. J. Lucas, Esq., of Horsham, after whom it is 

 named. — Native country not stated. 



L. MAJALIS, Lindl. — This is a glorious plant, one of the finest of the genus, 

 or perhaps one of the most striking of all known Orchids. It is of dwarf habit, 

 with ovate or roundish pseudobulbs, leathery oblong solitary leaves, and one- or 

 two-flowered peduncles bearing immense flowers, measuring between 7 and 



8 inches across from the tip of the dorsal to the tips of the lateral sepals, which 

 are lanceolate, 4 inches long, of a delicate lilac-rose, the petals being twice as 

 broad, oblong-lanceolate, and of the same colour ; while the lip is three-lobed, 

 the side lobes small, white inside, with magenta-purple stripes, the middle lobe 

 large, rounded, emarginate, purplish-lilac at the sides, white in the centre, 

 marked with bold divergent blotches forming broken lines of magenta-purple. 

 Its native name is Flor de Mayo. It blooms with the young growth during the 

 summer months, and lasts five or six weeks in beauty. This plant is rather 

 difiicult to flower in some collections, but we have bloomed it successively for 

 several years. We keep it rather dry and cool during the winter, and give it 

 plenty of water during the growing season. It is best grown near the glass 

 suspended from the roof, either on a block or in a basket, with little shade. — 

 Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 30 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6667 ; Bntcm. Orch. Meoc. ct Gnat., t. 23 ; 

 Jennings, Orch., t. 41 ; Paicton, Mag. Bot., xii. p. 1, with tab.; Revue Hort. Beige, 1883, 

 p. 265 (plate) ; Lindenia, iv. t. 190 ; Orchid Album, viii. t. 372 ; Journ. of Hort., 1893, 

 xxiv. p. 129, f. 19. 



Syn. — Cattleya Grahami ; Bletia siMclosa ; B. grandiflora. 



L. MEASURESIANA, Williams.— A very chaste and beautiful plant, with 

 stems 12 to 15 inches high, in some cases furnished with two ovate, oblong, 

 obtuse leaves, sometimes with a. solitary leaf only, which is oblong and acute, 

 suggesting, as do also the flowers, that it is a hybrid between L. elegans and 

 some other monophyllous species. . The sepals and petals arc oblong-lanceolate 



