Tab. 4193. 



LYCASTE FULVESCENS. 



Tawny-flowered Lycaste. 



Nat. Ord. Orchide^. — Gynandria Monandria. 



Gen. Char. Mores ringentes, petalis stepe dissimilibus, in mentum breve pro- 

 ducti. Labellum medio appendice transverso integro v. emarginato _ auctum. 

 Columna elongata, semiteres, ssepius pdosa. Pollinia 4, per paria caudicube an- 

 gustse elongate adnata ; glandula parva subrotunda ; rostello subulate-.— Herbse 

 pseud obulbosee ; f oliis plicatis. Scapi erecti, radicates, unifiori. Flores semper spe- 

 ciosi bractea magna spathacea suffulti, — Lindl. 



LYCXSTEfulvescens; bractea herbacea ovario breviore, sepalis lanceolatis latera- 

 libus falcatis, petalis conformibus paulo minoribus, labello oblongo lacinus 

 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 Orchideas 

 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 Mawillaria aromatica, Hook. Lx. 11 t. 2 1 9, 

 and M. macroglia, Poepp. Nov. Gen. pi. 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 



Descr 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 1 ST, 1845. 



