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Oultare. — During tlie growing season these plants require a liberal 

 supply of water at the roots — in fact, they should be kept watered till they- 

 come into flower. After they have done blooming they niust be rested 

 by withholding water. They do well in the East Indian house, and should 

 be grown in pots with peat, leaf mould, and sand, being potted in the 

 same manner as Galanthe vestita, which they resemble in growth ; they, 

 also floA\-er about the same time as that equally useful Orchid. They ai'e 

 propagated by dividing the pseudobulbs just when they begin to grow. 



L. LABROSA, Bclib. f. — A very distinct species, with rosy-purple sepals and 

 petals, lip light purple spotted with dark purple, and having a white base. — 

 Moulmein. 



Syn. — Calantlie lairosa. 



L. ROSEA, Lindl. — A charming winter-flowering Orchid, of which there 

 are many varieties. We have had five in flower at the same time, differing more 

 or less from each other in their colour, which varied from white to dark rose 

 and pink, with different intermediate shades of rose. We have few plants that 

 are more valuable for decorative purposes during the "dull season than this 

 Limatodis, and it may be had in flower for months together. It is a deciduous 

 plant, with fusiform pseudobulbs 5 or 6 inches long, much swollen at the 

 base, and terminated by broadly lanceolate membraneous ribbed leaves. The 

 flower scapes proceed from the base of the pseudobulbs, 'and are nodding, 

 attaining a height of 1 or 2 feet, .bearing many flowers, 'which are usually 

 of a pleasing shade of rose-pink, with a flat oblong lip, the side lobes of which 

 are white, rolled over the column, and having a white throat surrounded by 

 a well-defined ring of rich deep rose. ■ The -pseudobulbs, which are of a pale 

 brownish or greyish colour, are curiously constricted in the middle part, as 

 seen in some forms of Galanthe vestita. — Moulmein. 



Fia. —Paxton, Fl. Gard., iii. t. 81 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5312. 



LiMODORUM .—See Phajus^and Saccolabium. 

 LISSOCHILUS, Robert Broivn. 



(Tvihe Vaudeae, subtriie Eulophieae.) 



Tropical Orchids of terrestrial habit, some of which ' are of a very 

 ornamental character. The flowers have the petals larger than the 

 sepals, and spreading, and the lip is saccate at the base or produced into 

 a conical spur. The leaves are plicate, and the flower scape is leafless. 

 There are about thirty species of the genus, known, all found in Tropical 

 or Southern Africa. 



Culture. — These are terrestrial plants, and require to be potted 



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