six flowers. 
72 THE ORCHID. REVIEW. (MARCH, IgIt. 
From the foregoing it will be seen that L. rubescens requires warmer 
treatment than that accorded to L. anceps—I should say quite ten degrees 
— otherwise culture as to light, pure air, and a long resting spell, with little 
or no compost about the roots, is the same. Of the many plants observed 
in flower all were of a uniform rose-pink, and slightly different in outline 
from the Pacific coast type; the maroon blotch in the throat was, however, 
present. 
My several dozens of both forms of L. rubescens are here grown on 
pieces of Spanish cedar bark or truncheons of the Calabash tree, without 
any compost whatever, and hung up under the slightest shade. They flower 
here regularly every year, a month later than L. anceps—that is to say, 
Fig. 
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LALIA RUBESCENS. 
‘during January, L. 
anceps flowering during October, November, and 
December. 
The plants in masses, with five or more flower stems, are very effective, 
and with their delicate and airy grace associate most charmingly with the 
large and more formal flowers of the winter-blooming Cattleyas. 
Buena Ventura, J. C. HARVEY. 
Vera Cruz, Mexico. 
The accompanying figure will serve excellently well to illustrate Mr. 
Harvey’s remarks, though it does not represent a Mexican example. This 
plant was grown in the collection of J. J. Neale, Esq., of Penarth, by 
Mr. H. Haddon, and when photographed bore eight spikes and thirty- 
The history of the species was given at pp. 41, 42, of our 
fourteenth volume.—ED.} 
