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interrupted by streaks and spots which coalesce with the central portion ; lip 

 clawed, deeply bilobed in front, lobed and undulated at the edges, front lobe 



clear rich yellow, the claw, 

 spotted and dotted with chest- 

 nut-brown, the side lobes small, 

 tipped with yellow. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Orchid Alhvm, ix. 

 t. 405 ; Jimrn. ofHort., 1891, xxii. 

 p. 427, f. 78. 



O.LAWRENCEANUM. 



Brassia Lawkenceaxa. 



-See 



ONCIDinM LAEKINIAKUM. 

 (From the Journal nf HorticiiUurr.') 



O. LEOPARDINUM, Lindl. 

 ■ — A very free-flowering and 

 pretty species, of compact- 

 growing habit. It produces 

 its showy flowers in large loose 

 ])anicles some 3 feet high ; they 

 are yellow with ver}' distinct 

 dark brown bands on the sepals 

 and petals, and at the base of 

 the lip, which has the middle 

 lobe unguiculate transversely 

 emarginatc, and the base auri- 

 culate. — Peru. 



O. LEOPOLDIANUM, Rolfe.—A handsome introduction of the Horticulture 

 Internationale, and dedicated to H.M. Leopold II., King of the Belgians. The 

 pseudobulbs are fusiform, from 4 to 5 inches high, one or two-leaved ; scape 

 branched, many-flowered; flowers 2 inches across, sub-regular; sepals and 

 petals pure white with a rosy-purple disk ; lip narrow triangular, deep rosy- 

 purple, with a yellow crest. — Andes of SoutJi. America. 



Fig. — Liiideaia, vi. t. 274. 



O. LEPTURUM, liclib. /.—A curious species imported by Mr. T. Christy. 

 Sepals and petals cuncate, oblong, acute, sulphur-yellow, witli a single brown 

 spot on each; lip broadly cordate at the base, narrowing towards the small bifid 

 apex, yellow spotted with light brown. — Bolivia. 



O. LEUCOCHILUM, Bateman. — A desirable and beautiful species, of which 

 there are many varieties, some richer in colour than others. It has oblong- 

 ovate slightly furrowed pseudobulljs, linear-lanceolate acute leaves, and long 

 drooping panicles of pleasing flowers, which have the oblong spreading nearly 

 equal sepals and petals yellowish-green, closely barred and blotched with dark 

 brown, and the broad kidney-shaped two-lobed lip pure white, with a blotch of 

 ])urple-red on the contracted unguis, supported by two spreading white refuse 

 lateral lobes. The scapes are sometimes as much as 10 feet long. It blooms at 

 different times of the year, and lasts a long time in perfection. Best grown in a 

 pot. Dr. Lindley, quoting Mr. Skinner, observes that the summer temperature 



