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obtuse spur; column triangular, green, yellow at the base. It has been flowered 

 successively by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart. ; D. Tod, Esq., of Glasgow ; M. le 

 Duo de Massa, of FrauconYille, France, and H. Gaskell, Esq., of Woolton Wood, 

 Liverpool. Flowers in winter. — Congo, 



Fia.— Ganl. Chroii., 3rd scr., 1888, iii. p. C17, f. 83 ; OtcMd Allum, x. t. 457. 



L. GRAEFEI, Kranalin. — A tall-growing vigorous species, with long lanceo- 

 late plicate leaves ; flower stems 3 to 4 feet high, producing twenty or more 

 flowers ; sepals dark green shaded with dark purple-brown ; petals bright yellow 

 inside, pale yellow outside ; mid lobe of lip pale yellow, side lobes violet. Named 

 in honour of I)r. ITiigo Graefe, of Streglitz, near Berlin. — Tropical Africa. 



L. HORSFALLII, Batem. — This is a magnificent plant, in habit of growth 

 resembling Phajiis grandifoJiiis. It has a fleshy underground tuber, from 

 which springs a tuft of lanceolate acute distinctly stalked plaited leaves 



2 to 3 ^eet long, and an erect terminal flower scape twice the length of the 

 leaves, term.inated by a dense elongated raceme of large and beautiful flowers ; 

 the sepals are lanceolate, undulated, reflexed, of a rich purplish-brown ; the 

 petals are much larger, white, with a delicate tint of rose ; the lip funnel- 

 shaped, purplish at the base, three-lobed, the lateral lobes large, erect, convex, 

 green streaked with purplish-crimson, and the middle lobe bluntly ovate, of a 

 deep puoy-purple, with three white ridges on the disk running down to the 

 base. It was received by the gentleman whose name it bears frcra Old Calabar. 

 — Tropical West Africa. 



¥ia.—JBot. Mag., t. 5486 ; Batem. Second Cent. Orc%. PI., t. 121. 



L. KREBSII PURPURATUS, Ridley.— This variety has conical pseudobulbs 



3 inches in length, with stout roots, and broad thin plicate leaves ; the flower 

 stem is 3^ feet high, and bears a spike of about twenty flowers, four or more of 

 which open at a time ; the sepals are dark green at the back, and deep maroon- 

 purple in front, the margins revolute ; the petals are ovate, bright yellow 

 above, pale cream, faintly veined with red beneath, and the lip is dull orange- 

 yellow with the lateral lobes chocolate-purple, streaked with darker lines, and 

 the spur tipped with pink. Introduced by Mr. Heath. — South Africa. 



Fia.— Orchid Album, vi. t. 259. 



L. ROSEUS, Lincll. — A grand species of this group of terrestrial Orchids, 

 having the stiff erect leaves broadly lanceolate and plicately veined, and the 

 flower-scapes between 3 and 4 feet high, terminated by a dense oblong raceme 

 of handsome lively coloured flowers, very distinct in character, each produced 

 from the axil of an ovate bract; the sepals are spathulate , in outline, concave, 

 reflexed, of a rich deep velvety brown, the large oblong apiculate recurved 

 petals are of a deep rose colour ; and the three-lobed lip, which is roundish and 

 longer than the petals, is also of a deep rose, and bears a conspicuous golden 

 crest of three undulated lamellae on the disk ; the under side of the lip and the 

 conical spur is also yellow. — Sierra Leone. 



FiG.—Bot. Beg., 1884, t. 12. 



L. SANDERSONI, Bchh.f.—A tall-growing species allied to L. Horsfalli. 

 It was introduced from Natal and flowered at Kew in June, 1886. Sir Joseph 



