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with an ovate elevateii appendage or callus. Tt blooms during the winter and 

 spring months, and lasts long in beauty. — Mexico. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3395 ; Lodd. Sot. Cab.,t. 1612 ; IlooJt. First Cent. Orch. Pl.,t. 42. 



Syn. — Maxillaria Deppe'i. 



L. DEPPEI PUNCTATISSIMA, K,c]ih. f.—A. very large-flowered and distinct 

 variety, in which the sepals and petals are greenish-white covered with innu- 

 merable purple spots, and the lip is yellow with dark purple radiating lines on 

 the side lobes, and five blotches of the same colour on the anterior lobe ; it 

 flowers during the winter months. — Guaiemcda. 



FlG.—OrcIiid Album, ¥i. t. 2G2. 

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•■L. FULVESCENS, Hoolc. — ^An interesting though not a showy species, with 

 large broadly ovate pseudobulbs, somewhat membraneous plicate lanceolate 

 leaves, two or more from their top, and tawny yellow flowers on slender radical 

 scipes ; the flowers have lanceolate sepals 2| inches long, the lateral ones 

 falfcate, connate at the base into a blunt spur ; the petals are similar but slightly 

 smaller ; and the orange-coloured lip is oblong, three-lobed, with an emarginate 

 appendage on the disk, ' and an ovate obtuse front 'lobe, beautifully fringed at 

 the margin with wavy hairs.'— ?7. 8. of Colombia. 



Flc..—J3ot. Mag.', t. 4193 ; Himh. First Cent. Orch. PL, t. 45. 



Stn. — Maxillaria fwhesccns. 



■ L. GIQANTEA, Lindl. — A stately -growing plant, of which thei'e are several 

 varieties, some of which are inferior in beauty, though the best are well deserving 

 a place with- !,.■ Skinneri. It has oblong-ovate ' smooth pseudobulbs some 6 or 

 6 inches high, bearing two or three large oblong-lanceolate acuminate plicate 

 leaves from 1 to 2 feet long ; the scapes are proportionately stout, and bear a 

 solitary flower, which measures from tip to base fully 6 inches, and as much 

 across ; the sepals and petals are of a warm olive-green, the latter being rather 

 the shorter, and the lip is oblong-lanceolate, three-lobed, the middle lobe pan- 

 duriform, serrated at the edge, of a rich maroon-purple with a warm border of 

 orange ; the ' appendage to the lip is a transverse saddle-shaped emarginate 

 callus ; it blooms during the winter months. — Central America ; New Grenada. 



Fig.— ^or!. Mag., t. 561G ; Batcm. Second Cent. Orch. PI., t. 198 ; Bot. Beg., 1845, 

 t. 34 ; Annales de Gand, 1845, t. 9 ; Orchid Alhwm, ix. t. 40S. 

 Syn. — Mamillaria Jlifynderyseii. 



L. GIGANTEA LABELLO-VIRIDIS, H. TTiZZiams.— This variety differs from 

 the type in having a green lip. 



L. HARRISONIAE, Hort. — An old and undeservedly neglected species, with 

 pyriform tetragonal pseudobulbs bearing a single large oblong-lanceolate plaited 

 leaf; the scape is ,one-, sometimes two-flowered, the flowers large, measuring 

 some 3 inches, in diameter; the sepals and petals large and fleshy, creamy- 

 white, the lateral sepals being attenuated into a spur-like base ; the lip purple, 

 yellowish at the base, and marked with purple veins exterior!y,'the inner surface 

 streaked with red lines, except the orange-coloured appendage on the disk ; it 

 supceeds in a cool house, and its flowers last an immense time in perfection 

 in ^ sitting-room. Eeichenbach refers this species to Bifrevcir'.a. The var. 



