generally toothed with 2 or 3 unequal teeth. Stamens 5, distinct,
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, recurved.
Style double the length of the stamens, exserted, purple,
smooth and glossy, with a few glandular hairs below the middle.
Stigma small, enclosed betwixt one lip bearded, the other smooth. a two-lipped Indusium,
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 handsomest,
and may be considered the type of the species. Our
drawing was made in June last, from a fine plant entirely covered
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, 2w6i0th0 ,w t'ooo blley afi lwameaekn tssp. ecimen of that species, as it is described
A native of Lucky Bay, in New Holland, from whence
seeds were received by Mr. Mnckay, 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
ssioturta tioofn s:oil in Spring, and placed under hand-glasses in a cool
The genus was named by Mr. Brown, in honour of M. Les-
cHhoelnlaanudlt., Botanist to Captain Baudin’s expedition to New
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