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D. Hooker describes it in the Botanical Magazine as folloTVS : — "Leaves 3 to 

 4 feet long, 3 to 4 inches broad, elongate lanceolate acute, plaited, bright green ; 

 scape 6 to 7 feet high, spike 1 foot long, producing two to six flowers, 2^ inches 

 in diameter ; sepals green, with brown edges and nerves ; petals much larger; 

 obliquely faloately broadly oblong, obtuse, pure white ; lip large, contracted 

 below into a short conoidal obtuse spur ; side lobes large, rounded and incurved, 

 very concave, dark green, with brownish veins ; limb pale violet, with darker 

 purple streaks." — Natal. 

 Fig.— Sot. Ma;;., t. 68.58. 



L. SPECIOSUS, JJ. Br. — A fine showy species, having large roundish ovate 

 underground bulbs, from which spring up a tuft of several ensiform. sharp- 

 pointed, stoutish, smooth leaves of a deep green colour; the scape comes from 

 the side-of the newly formed bulb, and is erect, many-flowered, 2 to 4 feet high, 

 bearing the fragrant flowers in racemes If foot long, the flowers themselves, 

 which, have a green bract at their base, being attractive in appearance, and 

 from the torsion, of their pedicels, being what is called resupinate, or upside 

 down ; the sepals are small, green, and reflexed ; the petals oblong-ovato, 

 1 inch long, spreading, of a bright glowing yellow, and the lip is nearly as long 

 as the petals, ovate-oblong, incurved, retuse, yellow, the cordate base white, 

 feathered with purple veins. "The flowers in general begin to open at the 

 lower part of the scape about May or June, and continue to expand upwards in 

 ;succession until the latter end of July or the middle of August." It prefers 

 rich loamy soil, and should be well drained, as in summer it must be liberally 

 watered ; and the intermediate house suits it best. — South Africa. 



Fm.—Hot. Reg., t. 578 ; Paxton, Mag. Bvt., iv. p. 25, with tab. 



L. STYLITES, Bchb. f. — A handsome species, allied to L. roseus, and 

 ■ described as follows : — "Sepals triangular acuminate, reflexed ; petals oblong, 

 wide; lip grand, square, blunt-edged, with a very short . conical spur, and two 

 styliform processes in the mouth ; there are numerous dark spots on the base 

 of the lip inside. Flowers equal to that of a good Zygopetalum intermedium, 

 .rose coloured " (H. G. Eeichenbach, in Gardeners' Chronicle, n.s., xxiii. p. 786). 



lUDDEMANNIA.— See Cycnoches Pescatohei. 

 Ij U I S I A, Gaudichaiid. 



(^Trlie Vandeae, suitribe Sarcantliideae.) 

 This genus comprises few plants from Tropical Asia, but as far as w& 

 know them, they make no display in the Orchid houses, they are never- 

 theless verj'- interesting plants; but as many of our growers take a great 

 interest in these curious plants, we here include a few of the best known 

 to us. They are small growing plants having an upright stem, and 

 terete rush-like leaves of a deep green, bearing short spikes of dull and 

 inconspicuous flowers, which do not last long in perfection. 



