a plant with an immense geographical range, descending from 
Costa Rica to New Grenada and Venezuela, Bolivia and Peru. 
There is no doubt that LZ. plana, Lindl., is the same plant, 
though there 1s great doubt that there may ever appear such an 
elegantly coloured thing as represented in Bot. Reg. 1843, t. 35: 
Miss Drake may have dipped her brush into a wrong colour, just 
as our good von Warscewicz did so very often. LL. macrophylla 
has a much longer peduncle, and the callus of the lip is very 
different—flat up to its apex, not expanded in such a spoon-like 
excavation. 
Adventitious roots branched, long continuing hairy, subter- 
raneous. Mature pseudobulbs with an emaciated yellowish or 
whitish brown sheath at their base, ovoid-hexangular, a little 
ancipitous, having two blunt ribs on each side, covered with small 
transverse grooves like “shagreen leather.” Leaves two or three 
on the pseudobulbs, with a cuneate petiolar base, oblong or 
oblong-ligulate acuminate, often undulated and plaited around 
the limb, with five stronger ribs on the under side. Common 
flower-stalks several close together, four inches high, with four 
brownish short blunt acute sheaths at the base and a wider 
acuminate one beneath the subfoliaceous green subcucullate 
acuminate bract, often equalling the flower. Chin conical, blunt. 
Sepals oblong-acuminate, the lateral ones often only acute. Tepals 
oblong-attenuate, nearly triangular, blunt. Lip oblong-ligulate, 
three-lobed towards the point; lateral lobes rectangular, blunt; 
middle lobe much longer, ovate or oblong, with a few small teeth. 
A linear callus from the antebasilar region, dilated between the 
lateral lobes into a spoon-like process, with erect border. Colwmn 
clavate, with numerous small haus below the stigmatic hollow. 
Anther blunt, velvety. Sepals brownish greenish, with a violet- 
purplish hue, except at the tips, which are generally full green. 
Tepals and lip whitish yellow; some purplish colour at base of 
tepals and purplish lines on the disk of lip. Callus yellow, with 
purplish blotches. 
Materials :—Description of the living plant in the Saundersian 
collection, compared with plants of the Hamburgh Garden; my 
original sketches; one wild and nine garden specimens; inspection 
of many fresh flowers, the plant having very much flowered in 
Hamburgh Botanic Garden. I never observed such broad anterior 
lobes to the lip as are represented by our artist. 
