476 orchid-grower's manual. 



L. MACROPHYLLA, Lindl.—A distinct-coloured species, with large ovate 

 ribbed pseudobulbs, ample lanceolate plaited leaves, and bold flowers, of which 

 the sepals are olive-green, and the petals, which are nearly as long as the sepals, 

 and broadly rounded and undulated at the extremity, are of a pale nankin- 

 tinted sulphur ; the lip is also of the same tint of pale sulphur with purplish 

 spots on the edges of the lobes, and has a tongue-shaped appendage. — Peru: 

 Caraccas. 



ViG.—Aiimles dii Gand, 1818, t. 221. 



Syn. — Maj-'iUaria macrophylla. 



L. PLANA, Lindl. — A rather showy species, with large ovate-oblong 

 ribbed pseudobulbs, bold oval lanceolate plicate leaves, and handsome flowers 

 some 3| inches across, having flat oblong spreading sepals of a fine madder 

 red, smaller white petals, with a rosy-crimson blotch, having in it an eye-like 

 spot of white on their recurved tips, and a still smaller white lip spotted with 

 rosy-crimson, the roundish front lobe serrated, and the appendage oblong blunt 

 and obscurely three-lobed. We saw this plant well flowered in the collection 

 of E. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham. Mr. Measures also has a 

 variety with a pure white lip, and another with a bright rose-coloured lip. It 

 flowers during the winter. — Bolivia. 



FlG.~Bot. Bpg., 1843, t. 35 ; Orchid Album, v. t. 230. 



L. PLANA MEASURESIANA, Williams. — A handsome variety which has the 

 sepals reddish-brown, the petals pure white, spotted in the centre with bright 

 crimson, the lip white, spotted towards the base with crimson. In growth it 

 resembles the type. It is dedicated to R. H. Measures, Esq., of Streatham. — 

 Bolivia. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, vii. t. 306. 



L. ROSSIANA, Biolfe. — A neat and pretty species, which flowered in the 

 collection of H. J. Ross, Esq., of Florence. It is said to be allied to L. cruenta, 

 " but the flowers are smaller, and the lip is without the basal cavity and the 

 broad transverse maroon band seen in that species " {Orchid Review, i. p. 239). — 

 Native country not stated. 



L. SCHILLERIANA, B^hh. /.—A free-growing plant, with the habit of 

 L. gigantea, but a more desirable species. The pseudobulbs and foliage are like 

 those of L. iSkinneri, but the leaves are more erect; the scapes supporting the 

 flowers are about 6 inches in height ; the sepals are spreading, about 4 inches 

 long, greenish-brown, the petals smaller, very pure white, converging over the 

 base of the lip, the latter being pure white in front, and with a slight tinge of 

 yellow at the base. The flowers are set on the stalk as in L. Skinneri, that is, 

 they look the observer in the face, and not as in L, gigantea, in which they look 

 down at the pot in which the plant is growing. — Central America. 



TlG.— Gartoiflora, 1890, t. 1321. 



L. SCHONBRUNNENSIS, Hort. Tindoh.— This is one of the few hybrids 

 which have been raised in this genus ; one of its parents was L. Skinneri, while 

 the other is supposed to be L. Schilleriana. It flowered in the Imperial Gardens 

 at Schonbrunn, near Vienna. " The sepals are oblong-lanceolate, acute, about 



