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LYCASTE gigantea. 
Large-flowered. Lycaste. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEAX. $ VANDER—MAXILLARIDE. 
_ LY CASTE.’ Supra, vol. for 1843. fol. 35." * 
L. gigantea ; bracteá herbaceá sepalis subæquali, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis 
lateralibus falcatis, petalis conformibus pauld minoribus, labello lanceo- 
lato acuminato laciniis lateralibus acutis intermediä ovatà acuminatä 
(obtusä) serratä, appendice carnoso emarginato.—Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 
1843. mise. 16. 
Maxillaria Heynderyexii, Morren in Annales de la Société Royale d’Agricul- 
ture et de Botanique de Gand. vol. 1. t. 9. 
Although the colours of this species are not gay, yet its 
large size and the great height to which its flowering stem 
rises (full two feet), are remarkable features; besides which 
its flowers are among the largest in the race of Orchids. 
Mr. Hartweg found it in Guayaquil, flowering in the 
month of August, at a place called the Quebrada de las 
Juntas; and from his dried specimens it was described in 
this work in the year 1843. The solitary flower, however, 
which we examined had a labellum very much drawn to a 
point; but the specimens which have been produced in our 
stoves had that part abruptly rounded off, as is shewn in the 
annexed plate (fig. 1.) ; and the former therefore was perhaps 
some accidental form. This is the more probable, since the 
species has also flowered in Belgium, whither it had been in- 
troduced from La Guayra. 
M. Morren, who called it Maxillaria Heynderycxii “ after 
Senator Heynderyex, vice-president of the Royal Agricultural 
and Botanical Society of Ghent,” was apparently unacquainted 
with the enumeration of Lycastes published in this work in 
the year 1848. 
It should be potted in turfy heath-mould mixed with 
potsherds. To prevent the water from becoming stagnant 
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