CHAPTER XLV E. 
PAPHINIA. 
THIS is a small genus, included, in the latest classification, 
under Lycaste, but sufficiently distinct for garden purposes to 
justify us in retaining the older and better-known name. 
All the introduced species are small in growth, with very 
pretty and strikingly-coloured flowers, which, in proportion 
to the size of the plants, are surprisingly large. The 
pseudo-bulbs are short, clustered, and slightly furrowed, 
bearing two or three plaited, lanceolate leaves. The 
pendent scapes originate at the base of the pseudo-bulbs, 
and carry from one to three flowers, in which the sepals 
and petals are about equal in size, fleshy, widely expanded, 
and lance-shaped; they are also more or less barred and 
spotted with brown or purple on a whitish ground. The 
lip is unguiculate, three-parted, with a fringe of white, 
hair-like glands on the tip. There are two pairs of pollen- 
masses attached to a rather long caudicle. The species are 
natives of Trinidad and various parts of tropical South 
America, and all of them are worthy of cultivation. 
Culture.—Paphinias require stove treatment all the year 
round, shade during summer, and to be suspended near 
the glass. They should be planted in pans or small baskets, 
in a compost of fibrous peat and sphagnum, to which may 
be added a few pieces of charcoal. An abundant supply 
