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chocblate-red (sometimes yellower with cinnamon-red markings) ; the lip pan- 

 durate, deflexed from near the base, which is pale lilac-purple, and the emarginate 

 mucronate apex white; the crest consists of only two slight almost obsolete 

 ridges on the disk, whence the name laeve. Being a very abundant bloomer, it 

 should become generally cultivated, especially as it will thrive under the very 

 coolest treatment. — Mexico. 



Fid.— Sot. Reg., ISU, t. 39 ; Z'/U. HoH., t. 213. 



O. LAEVE REICHENHEIMII, Moore.— This fine plant so closely resembles 

 0. laeve as to be scarcely distinguishable. It is a strong free-growing and 

 handsome variety, sending up its branched panicle some 2 or 3 feet in height, 

 and bearing a profusion of attractive flowers ; the sepals and petals are yellowish- 

 green barred with purplish-brown, and the lip varies very much in colour, in 

 some varieties being quite dark, and in others a light purple. In this plant the 

 lip is not deflexed as in laeve itself. When well grown it makes a fine specimen. 

 ■ — Mexico. 



¥iG.—PescaUrca, t. 19; Warner, Sd. Orch. Pl.,i\.t.\io; Satem. Mon. OdoiU., 

 tt. 15, 16. 



Syn. — 0. SelBhenhelmii . 



O. LANCEANS, Bchb.f. — This species was established in 1888 by Eeiohenbach 

 to include a number of Odontoglossums of probable hybrid origin between O. 

 crispwm, 0. gloriosum, and 0. odoratum, of which large numbers have been 

 introduced during the last few years : 0. Atidersoniaivixm, 0. Jenningsianum, 

 0. ha/phicanthum, 0. hebraicum, 0. Brassia, 0. deltoglossum, 0. Leeanum, and 0. 

 Eiuckerinum, which are according to him secondary types of one primary type, 

 i.e., 0. lanceans. We fully agree with the learned professor in the course he 

 adopted, as it is clear that many of these so-called species of hybrid origin are 

 not worthy of that rank, but for garden purposes and to save confusion we 

 think it, however, not advisable to give here this new style of nomenclature. 

 — U. S. of Colombia. 



O. LAWRENCEANUM— See 0. Insleayi. 



O. LEEANUM, Rclib. f. — A very distinct and handsome plant, probably a 

 wild hybrid, named in honour of W. Lee, Esq., Downside, Leatherhead. The 

 pseudobulbs are ovate compressed diphyllous, the leaves oblong ligulate acute, 

 and the scape radical, bearing an erect many-flowered raceme. The flowers are 

 of the stellate form, 3J inches across ; the sepals and petals are lanceolate 

 acuminate, bright yellow margined with orange, and spotted all over with small 

 dots of rich reddish-brown, the petals having each an open eye-like spot of clear 

 yellow; the oblong acuminate lip is pale yellow, deeper at the base and apex, 

 having a large brownish-crimson blotch towards the front, and a few marginal 

 spots ; the disk bears a thick linear keel, which extends into two rhomboidal 

 toothlettod lamellae. It flowers during the winter months. — New Grenada. 



Fig. — Orchid Album, iii. t. 101. 



O. LEHMANNI. — See 0. cristatellum. 



O. LEROYANUM. — See 0. Wilckeantjm Leegyanum. 



