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LISSOCHILUS SPECIOSA. 
(mR. griffin's showy LISSOCHILUS,) 
CLASS. ORDER. 
GINANDRIA. MONANDRIA, 
■NATURAL ORDKR. 
ORCHIDEiE. 
Generic Character — Pollen masses two, obliquely tAvo-lobed. Lip seccate at base, sessile undivided, 
convex at the base, united with the apterous toothless column. Inner sepals divaricating, petaloid; 
outer reflexed, calycine. Ency. of Plants. 
Specific Character. — A terrestrial bulbous species, growing more than two feet high. Leaves stift^, 
linear, lanceolate, smooth, of a deep green. Scape arising from the under side of the newly formed 
bulb, many-flowered. Flowers alternate, springing from the axilla of a lauee-shaped green bractea, 
spreading, of a beautiful yellow colour, very showy. 
This beautiful feature of the terrestrial portion of orchideous plants, was in- 
troduced from the Cape of Good Hope, by Mr. Griffin, in whose hot-house 
at South Lambeth, some time after, it produced its very showy yellow flowers „ 
The accompanying- representation was taken from a very fine plant in the 
possession of Mr. Faulkner, of Manchester, in whose collection of celestial and 
terrestrial Orchidese, it produced its rich blossoms in the autumn of 1835. 
This species, which is cultivated with the most perfect success in the collection 
of our respected contributor Mr. F., especially merits the attention of all lovers 
of orchideous plants; the flowers in general begin to open at the lower part of the 
scape about May or June, and continue to expand upwards in succession until the 
latter end of July, or the middle of August, during which time the most lively 
interest is kept up in the orchideses house, by the contrasted colour of its bright 
yellow blossoms with the deep green foliage of other surrounding species of this 
natural family. 
It will thrive in a temperature much below that in which orchideous plants in 
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