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L. BICOLOR, Lindl. — A neat and pretty epiphyte, with a creeping rhizome, 

 from which grow up several slender stems, which are about an inch long, and 



almost cylindrical, and terminatedby a solitary 

 terete recurved fleshy leaf, which is grooved 

 on,'the. upper 'side. The peduncle with a 

 solitary flower rises from the base of the leaf, 

 the flower itself having a very long pedunculi- 

 form ovary. ^ The sepals and petals are linear- 

 oblbhg, white, and the lip has two very short 

 lateral lobes, and an oblong front lobe nearly 

 as long as the petals, white, streaked with 

 purple on the disk; it blooms during, the 

 winter months, lasting four weeks in beauty. 

 — Brazil. -^ 



Fig.— Jiot. Reg., t. 1625 ; Sot. 3Iag., t. 3734 

 (glaucous var.) ; Liadaaia, iv. t. 157. 



L. BICOLOR BREVIS, JJoZ/e— This , new 

 variety flowered with us in 1892. . The sepals 

 and petals are similar to' those of the tj'pc ; 

 the lip is pure white. A very distinct and 

 pretty little plant. — Bradl. 



LEPTOTES BICOLOR. 



L. SERRULATA, Lindl— A charming little 

 plant, in the way of L. hicolor ; the flowers 

 being nearly the same in colour, the chief difference being that they 

 are considerably larger — as much as three or four times. The stems are 

 sometimes two-leaved, the cylindrical fusiform grooved leaves glaucous green, 

 dotted with purple, the scapes terminal and axillary, purple, bearing the large 

 stellate flowers on very long stalk-like ovaries ; the sepals and petals are white, 

 and the lip white, with lines of brilliant lake radiating from the base, where it 

 has two short rounded auricles. It blooms in April and May, and lasts three 

 weeks in perfection. — Brazil. 

 Fig. — Sertum OrcUid., t. 11. 



LiMATODIS, Blume. 



{Trihc Bpidendreae, suMrihe Bletieae.) 

 A small genus of beautiful terrestrial Orchids related to Phajus, in 

 wliich it is included by Bentham ; it also closely resembles Ctslanthe. 

 The flowers have a spurred lip rolled around the column, from which 

 it is free, and which, according to the authors of the Genera Plantarum, is 

 two-winged. It includes some species of a highly ornamental character. 

 By a slip of the pen Lindley formerly wrote the name Limatodes, but 

 has corrected it in the Folia Orchidacea. They are all Eastern, being 

 found in Java, Sumatra, India, Burmah, and China. 



