606 ORCIIIDES. 



LYCASTE. 



ttuc: Maxillaria coslata Lindl. B. Reg. XXIV. (1838). Misc. 1T4: 



Foliis lanceolaiis plicaiis scapo unilloro laxe vaginato lopgioribus elc. Peru. 

 Wallhews 10:^6. 



Huc: Maxillaria ciliota Popp. Endl. I. lab. 67. 



Lycasle costala Lindl. Gaidn. Clironicle 1.^5J. 663: 



Tliis fine specics originally described from a dried specimen found in Peru by 

 Blailhews , hos just Uowered wilh R. Hanbury, who received it from ihe Cordilleras. 

 Whh the habit of L, giganlea it uniles pure fleshy green llowers of following di- 

 mensions. Sepals ^V, inches long by 1'/^ broad, peials rather smaller; chin '/, inches, 

 slraight, almost cylindrical , and of the same lcnglh as ihe ovary , which is entirely 

 conceaied by an ovaie hooded green bract, which reaches about Vs part of the dor- 

 sal sepal. The lip is yellowish white, with a roundish fringed middle lobc, half ovatc 

 acute lateral lobes, and a very conspicuous iruncated ribbed white appendage. As 

 usual in this genus the lower face of the columa is shaggy , wiih white hairs. 



21. LYCASTE LANIPES Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXIX. (1843.) pg. 15 : 



Braclea oblusa cucullata ovarii longiludine, sepalis petalisque ob- 

 longis elongatis, labelli laevis lobis lateralibus ovatis obtusis brevibus, 

 interraedio oblongo obtuso basi serrato, tuberculo obtuso concavo cos- 

 lalo glabro, colurunae pede villoso. 



Guayaquil. ; > 



Found by Mr. Hartweg at Paccha, a village on the Andes, in the vicinity of Loxa. 

 and sent to ihe Horticult. Society. It has pale green tlowers , two inches and a half 

 long before they expand, wiihoul a trace of any other colour. It dilTers from L. cos- 

 lata in ihe flowers being much larger, whilo the bract is not longer, than ihe ovary ; 

 and from L. gigantea in ihe very short bract, ribbcd tubercle, and rounded noi acu- 

 minale middle segment of ihe lip. 



Huc : Lycabte mesochlaena Rchb. Ql. v. Warscew. 11. 98: 

 Aff. L. barbifronti mento elongato, tepalis lanceolatis , labelli lobo 

 medio denliculato. 



Pedunculus vaginis cucullatis acuminatis subcontiguis imbricatus, bractca summa 

 lancea ovario multo longior ; sepalum summum lanccolatum acutum; sepala lateralia 

 a mento subconico ovario aequali ascendentia. lanceolata. acuta , falcata; tepala lan- 

 ceolata acuta sepalo summo quarta parte breviora , paulo angustiora; labellum te- 

 palis quinta parte brevius, imo pedi gynosiemii adnatura linearilanceum , medio dila- 

 talum , trilobum , lobi lateralcs oblique irianguli, marginc poslico curvilinei , lobus 

 medius productus ovatus acutiusculus, margine dcnticulatus ; coslae 5 validpe cari- 

 natae a medio ungue usque inter lobos laterales producti, ibi in appendicem dbtusani 

 medio excisam excurrentes ; gynostemii frons superior ac inflma nuda , pars supra- 

 basilaris dense lanata. Bliilhe wenig kleiner, als die der L. barbifrons I-indl., deren 

 Tepala viel breiter, grosser ; deren Kina viel kurzer, dercn Mittellappcn an dcr Lippe 

 gefranst ist. Peru. v. Warscewicz. 



22. LYCASTE CILIATA Lindl. Ilerb. Mss. el Bonpl. IV. 1856. 324: 



Labelli laciniis lateralibus triangulis antrorsis lobulatis, laciuia anlica 

 ovato saccata ciliata , callo basi in basin laciniae anticae ibi abrupto, 

 ceterum quinquecoslato. 



23. LYCASTE REICHENBACHH Gireoud Bonpl. IV. 1856. p. 324. 



24. LYCASTE BARRINGTOMAE Lindl. Bot. Reg. XXX. (1844). Mi.sc. 51. (L. 0. 147. 

 MaxUlaria Barringlimiae Lodd. B. Cab. 1824. Maxillaria ciliata Fl. Peruv. Syst. 221 ? 

 Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1206): 



Pseudobulbis oblongis compressis costatis, foliis subternis oblongo- 

 lanceolatis acuminatis plicatis, scapo radicali vaginato unifloro ereclo 

 pseudobulbo vix longiore , bractea ovarii longitudine, sepalis pelalisque 



