generally toothed with 2 or 9 unequal teeth. Stamens 5, dis- 
tinct, surrounding the style: filaments smooth, attached to the 
base of the anthers. Ovarium below the calyx, 5-angled, slightly 
furrowed between the angles, of a glossy purple, smooth, recur- 
ved. Style double the length of the stamens, exserted, purple, 
smooth and glossy, with a few glandular hairs below the mid- 
dle. Stigma small, enclosed betwixt a two-lipped Indusium, 
one lip bearded, the other smooth. 
The present beautiful species is very subject to variation in 
the colour of its flowers, some plants producing scarlet, and 
others orange-coloured ones, others are intermediate between 
the two; the present bright scarlet variety is certainly the hand- 
somest, and may be considered the type of the species, Our 
drawing was made in June last, from a fine plant entirely co- 
vered with flowers, in the rare and superb collection of Robert 
Barclay, Esq. of Bury-hill, near Dorking, where it was raised 
from seed, and we also received a specimen from him of a much 
larger but lighter coloured species, with a pubescent corolla, and 
woolly filaments, which was raised by him at the same time, and 
which we have named L. oblata, from the dilated segments of 
the lower lip; we believe the figure of Botanical Magazine, 
2600, to be a weak specimen of that species, as it is described 
with woolly filaments. 
A native of Lucky Bay, in New Holland, from whence 
seeds were received by Mr. Mackay, of the Clapton Nursery, 
collected by Mr. William Baxter; the present variety is one of 
the most desirable plants for the Greenhouse, as it continues in 
flower nearly all the year, and makes a dwarf neat bushy plant, 
succeeding well in a mixture of light turfy loam, peat, and sand. 
Young cuttings strike root readily, planted in pots in the same 
sort of soil in Spring, and placed under hand-glasses in a cool 
situation. 
The genus was named by Mr. Brown, in honour of M. Les- 
chenault, Botanist to Captain Baudin’s expedition to New 
Holland. 
PHASE LE LL RL LE PF Le 
1, Ovarium, terminated by the Calyx. 2. Front view of the Corolla laid open, 
showing the beard at the base. 3. Back view of the same, to show the winged seg- 
ments of the lower lip, 4. The 5 Stamens. 5. Style, terminated by the Stigma, 
which is enclosed in a two-lipped Indusium, one lip bearded, the other smooth, 
