446 oechid-geower's manual. 



L. SCHRODERII, Williwms et Moore. — ^A very distinct and beautiful species, 

 which in its growth and in the shape and size of its flowers resembles L. grandis. 

 It was flowered for the first time by ourselves, and was named after Baron Sir 

 J. H. W. Schroder, The Dell, Staines, a great admirer of this noble class of 

 plants. The stems are clavate, about a foot and a half high, with solitary oblong 

 leathery light green leaves, and racemes of three or four flowers, borne on a 

 scape issuing from an oblong compressed bract or spathe. The flowers are 

 about 7 inches across, the sepals and much broader petals pure white, and the 

 lip white, undulated, veined towards the throat with magenta-rose, the throat 

 itself, as well as the part inflected over the column, deep yellow veined with 

 rose. This species has also flowered with Erastus Corning, Esq., of Albany, 

 New York, U.S.A., under the care of Mr. Gray, the gardener. It flowers during 

 May and June, lasting from three to four weeks in perfection. — Brazil ; Bahia. 



¥lG.— On-hid Allum, i. t. 2. 



L. STELZNERIANA.— See Laelio-Oattleya Schilleriana Sielznemana. 



L. SUPERBIENS, Lindl. — A noble Orchid, one of the finest of the genus. 

 It is rather a large-growing plant, with fusiform stems, bearing a pair of oblong 

 acute rigid leathery leaves at the top. The flower scape is 3 to 9 feet high, 

 having sometimes on one scape from fourteen to twenty blossoms, often 

 measuring 7 inches across ; these flowers have the sepals and petals of a 

 beautiful deep rose, somewhat paler towards the base; and the lip has the side 

 lobes deep crimson in front, yellowish at the sides above the fold over the 

 column, the disk yellow, with a crest of five large sub-serrate deeper orange 

 yellow lamellae, truncate in front ; the middle lobe is oblong emarginate, of a 

 rich deep crimson, flabellately veined with deeper crimson. It blooms during 

 the winter months, and continues long in beauty. The finest plant we ever saw 

 of this was in the Horticultural Gardens at Ohiswick ; it sometimes produced 

 as many as nine clusters of its beautiful flowers at one time ; the plant was 

 4 feet across, with the flowering stems 7 feet in height, and was in perfect 

 health. — Mexico: Guatemala. 



Fig. — Warner, Sel. Orcli. PI., i. t. 20 ; Batcm. Orch. Mcx. et Guat., t. 38 ; Bat. Mag., . 

 t. 4090 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., xi. p. 97, with tab. ; Flore des Serres, tt. 1178-9 ; Huoh. First 

 Cent. Orcli. PI., t. 2b ; Orcliid Album, vi. t. 244 ; Ilevue Hurt., 1887, p. 324 (plate). 



L. SUPERBIENS QUESNELIANA, Williams.— Tlh.is is a handsome and noble 

 evergreen. The growth is similar to that of the typical plant, its fusiform 

 stems or pseudobulbs bearing a pair of rigid leathery leaves on the summit. 

 The spike springs from between the leaves, and attains a length of over 5 feet, 

 bearing near the apex a raceme of flowers, varying from eleven to thirteen in 

 number, each measuring several inches across ; the sepals and petals are deep 

 rosy-purple, and the lip intense magenta-purple, with four prominent yellow- 

 crests. The flowers are produced during the months of February and March, 

 and it continues in full beauty for a considerable time, thus proving itself very 

 useful for winter decoration — a season when such beautiful flowers are highly 

 appreciated, and when they are always in special request.— Jfe.x-tco ; Guatemala. 



YlG,.— Orchid Album, yiyL.t.Z%Z. 



L. TENEBROSA See L. geandis tenebrosa. , . . 



