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LYCASTE FULVESCENS. Tawny-flowered Lycaste.

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Generic Character Flores ringentes, petalis sæpe dissimilibus, in mentum breve pro-

ducti. Labellum medio appendice transverso integro v. emarginato auctum. Columna elongata, semiteres, sæpius pilosa. Pollinia 4, per paria caudiculæ an- gustæ elongatæ adnata; glandula parva subrotunda; rostello subulato.-Herbæ pseudobulbosa; foliis plicatis. Scapi erecti, radicales, uniflori. Flores semper spe- ciosi bractea magna spathacea suffulti.-Lindl. LYCASTE fulvescens; bractea herbacea ovario breviore, sepalis lanceolatis latera- libus falcatis, petalis conformibus paulo minoribus, labello oblongo laciniis lateralibus parvis acutis intermedia ovata obtusissima fimbriato, appendice carnoso emarginato. " From the rich collection of the Rev. John Clowes, of Broughton Hall, Manchester, who sent it as a species distinct from L. gigantea of Dr. Lindley, 'Bot. Reg.' 1845, Tab. 34. "I received it," that gentleman observes, "along with L. gigantea and other Orchidea from the province of Coro, in Columbia, of Linden's collecting;' and now that Dr. Lindley has figured the L. gigantea, we are the better able to point out the distinguishing characters, which may be found in the much smaller size of the flowers, and especially of the bractea, and the beautifully fringed margin of the middle lobe of the labellum, to say nothing of the different colour,―here a rather pale tawny, with an orange-coloured lip, in L. gigantea a greenish-brown, with a red-purple lip. Lycaste is a name recently given by Dr. Lindley to a group of Maxillaridea, of which Maxillaria aromatica, Hook. Ex. Fl. t. 219, and M. macrophylla, Poepp. Nov. Gen. pl. 1. t. 64, may be con- sidered the types, and of which he has now described ten species, all natives of Peru, Columbia, Mexico, and Guatemala.

Botanical Description Pseudo-bulbs broadly ovate, in part sheathed by mem-

branous large scales. Leaves two or more from the summit of the pseudo-bulb, one and a half to two feet long and varying much in width, rather membranous, plicate. Peduncles from the base NOVEMBER 1ST, 1845. of the pseudo-bulb, eight to ten inches to a foot long, terete, simple, single-flowered, jointed, and with sheathing bracteas at the joints; upper bractea at the base of the ovary, and shorter than it. Se- pals lanceolate, two lateral ones the longest, subfalcate, acuminate, combined at the base which is retuse, the two lower ones forming there an obtuse spur. Petals smaller than the sepals, but of similar form and colour. Lip oblong, three-lobed, orange colour; the disk with a large emarginate, fleshy gland; the side lobes small, acute, curved upwards, middle lobe ovate, very obtuse, reflexed, its margin beautifully fringed with wavy hairs.

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