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Flowers short, narrowing in the middle, expanding again at the 

 mouth. Outer segments yellowish green, tipped with green, the 

 ends reflexed. Inner segments nearly twice as long as outer, 

 the anterior segment longer than the others. All become curled 

 backwards when the flower is fully open. Apex of scape, and 

 sterile buds, soft bluish green. I imagine this to be the plant 

 figured in the Botanical Magazine, table 1269. 



L. glaucina viridis. — This is the best of all the glaucinas, 

 and is generally grown under the name Laclienalia viridis. It 

 is a bold flower, with very handsome foliage. Leaves about 12 

 inches long, 1 \ inches broad, very erect, and tapering to a point, 

 heavily spotted with purple brown, passing into a uniform patch 

 at the apex, and along the margins. Scape stout, erect, blotched 

 with reddish purple. Flowers twenty to twenty-five, 1 inch long. 

 Outer perianth segments bluish green, the posterior segment 

 having a large hump, tips green. Inner segments pale green or 

 almost white, the anterior segment longer and more slender than 

 the others, slightly reflexed. Buds reddish purple. Baker now 

 includes in L. glaucina the L. pallida described in his mono- 

 graph, species No. 8, and figured in plate 170 of Saunders's 

 Befugium Botanicum and in Botanical Begister, plate 1350, 

 and plate 1945. 



L. orchioides, Ait. Kew.— A pretty species, with small flowers 

 of varied colours, from almost white to deep blue. The flowers are 

 much smaller and narrower than those of L. glaucina, and the 

 inner segments are not so irregular. In strong specim ens the 

 flower-stalks are curved over like a shepherd's crook, with 

 flowers arranged in rather dense spikes. The leaves are long 

 and slender, faintly spotted. Scape 8 to 12 inches, erect, slender, 

 spotted. Flowers numerous, spreading horizontally. Flowers 

 not t> inch long, outer segments one-third shorter than the 

 inner, with green tips. It is well figured in Saunders's Befu- 

 gium Botanicum, table 171. There is also a plate in Botanical 

 Magazine, table 854. 



Laclienalia orthopetala, Jacq. — A species of very slender 

 growth, with pure white flowers, save that each of the perianth 

 segments is tipped with reddish purple. The leaves are 

 long and slender, four to five in number, \ inch wide, spotted 

 with red along the midribs on the upper side, and tapering 

 to a long point. Scape slender, 6 to 8 inches long, dull red. 



