GLEANINGS AND OKIGINAL MEMORANDA 
297. Lycaste leucantha, KlotzscL A pretty epiphyte^ from Central America^ belouging to 
Orcliids. Flowers white, or stained with crimson. Introduced by M. Warczewitz. (Figs. 151, 152.) 
There has recently appeared, among the plants obtained ui Central America by JI. Warczewitz, a species of Lycaste, 
remarkable for numerous varieties in the size and colour of the flowei*s. The fii-st tliat blossomed, being quite white, 
received the pi'o visional name of L. Candida, now superseded by that of hucantha, published, in December last, in the 
AUgemehw Gartenzeitunr;, p. 402. During the present spring, others have appeared, with much smaller, and much larger 
flowers, some of which, instead of being colourless, are richly stained with ciunison. Of the two accompanyinir figures 
151 represents a largo and colourless form ; 152, a smaller, blood-stained one. Among all these we find nothing like a 
specific distinction, so that a description of one will apply very nearly to others. The species is among tlie dwai'fest of the 
genus, its flowers scarcely reaching higher than the lower part of the leaves. A few distant sheathing-scales clothe the 
scape. The bract immediately beneath the flower is inflated in the middle, green, and contracted at the base, and as long 
as the ovary, which it nearly conceals. The flowers, by a curve of their sleuJer stalk, arch over, so that, when fully 
expanded, tliey present their whole face to the eye of the observer. The sepals are oblong, rolled back at the point, 
somewhat wavy. The petals have the same form, but are smaller, and, whe a the flower is young, roll together at the 
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