472 okchid-geower's manual. 



Gulktre. — The plants belonging to this genus are of easy culture, if 

 properly attended to with respect to water, of which they require a 

 liberal supply during the growing season, especially L. Skinneri and its 

 varieties. We have seen specimens of this species bearing as many as 

 fifty blossoms, and producing a grand effect. They should be grown in 

 a cool house, potted in peat, with good drainage, and be liberally 

 supplied with water during the growing season ; they should, in fact, 

 never be allowed to get dry at the roots even while at rest. These 

 plants will stand, for a very long time in flower in a sitting room, and 

 will continue in full perfection, without the slightest injury arising 

 therefrom, but they should be grown in the warmest end of the cool 

 house. They are propagated by division after flowering. 



L. AROMATICA, Lindl. — A ratlier desirable species, on account of its 

 free-bloominp; habit aud fragrance. It has ovate compressed pseixdobulbs, 

 oblong lanceolate plicate leaves, and numerous erect slender one-flowered 

 scapes about 4 inches high, growing from the base of the pseudobulbs ; the 

 flowers are golden yellow, greenish exteriorly, and the semi-cylindraceous lip, 

 which is spotted inside with orange, has the front lobe cuneate serrulate at the 

 tip, and bears in the middle a large concave fleshy truncate appendage.^ 

 Mexico. 



Fig.— Noah. Exot. Fl., t. 219 ; Bot. Beg., t. 1871 ; Vcitch's Man. Orch. PI, ix. p. 84 : 

 The Garden, 1893, xliv. p. 394, t. 933. 



Syn. — Maxillaria aromatica ; Colax aromatica. 



L. CINNABARINA, Hdlfe. — An old and beautiful species, which has, however, 

 only recently come into cultivation. It was discovered by Warscewicz in 1853, 

 and has now been imported by the Horticulture Internationale. The flowers 

 are produced on short scapes, and are said to be " ivory-white suffused with 

 pale yellow or pale green; lip entire, of a deep apricot or light orange-brown 

 tint." — Peril. 



Fig. — Lindenia, ix. t. 394. 



Stn . — Maxillaria cinndbarina. 



L. CITRINA, Hort.—A fine robust-growing species, with the habit of 

 L. Harrisoniae, and flowering about the same time. The flowers are lar^e, 

 thick and fleshy, and have the sepals and petals lemon colour, aud the lip 

 white marked with lilac. It is a distinct and rare plant. — Brazil. 



L. COBBIANA, Bchh. /.—A curious and distinct plant having long narrow 

 pseudobulbs. The sepals are greenish-yellow, the petals greenish-white, and 

 the lip white, distinctly fringed. We saw a nice plant of this blooming 

 in the large collection of W. Lee, Esq., Leatherhead, now dispersed. It flowers 

 in September. — Native country not stated. 



L. COSTATA, Lindl. — A showy and beautiful evergreen species. Pseudo- 

 bulbs 3 inches high, bearing broad, plicate, deep green leaves from 1 foot to 



