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both of a fine rosy hue, and a long lip blotched with purplish in pots. Of the numerous varieties, which vary principally in the 
crimson towards the apex. The flowers are borne on the upper colours of sepals, petals, and lip, the three following deserve special 
portion of a spike, which is frequently 18 inches in length. The mention :— 
plant is of robust growth and blooms freely, succeeding admirably L. aneeps far. Barlteriana .—One of the most elegant forms, as 
the annexed engraving well indicates, and easily distinguished by crimson, and streaked inside with a similar hue ; in form it is also 
the sepals and petals being of equal width. They are of a delicate longer and much more acute than in the type. It was, like the 
rosy tint, the lip being broadly margined with intense purplish species, found in Mexico, and was named in honour of George 
