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B. Lycaste Harrisonia alba. Brazil. 

 Perianth pure white, tipped with violet. 



A very free-blooming plant of easiest culture. It will 

 do well, and bloom in the parlor. 



A. Lycaste lanipes. South America. 



Flowers creamy white, with fringed lip, in autumn. 



C. Lycaste macrophylla. Colombia . P. and E., 64. 



B. R., 1840, 191. 



Perianth green, tinted and spotted with brown ; lip 

 whitish, variegated with yellow and violet. This species 

 has a disagreeable odor, and is always found on the 

 ground under the shade of trees. 



B. Lycaste plana. Colombia B. R., 29,35. 



This species resembles the last, but the flowers are of 



a richer color. It needs heat, and the bulbs should never 

 be at all covered with soil, as they rot very easily. 



B. Lycaste Schilleriana. 



A pretty species. Sepals yellowish brown ; petals white ; 

 lip white, with yellow base. 



A. Lycaste Skinneri. Gautemala. F. M., 24, 192. 



Jen. Orch., 9. B. M., 4445. 



War. Orch., 10. Pax. Mag., u, i. 



Bat, 35, as Maxillaria. Fl. des Ser., 303, 304. 



Pes., 39. F. M., 2, 35. 



Perianth pure white ; sepals lightly tipped with rose ; 

 petals rosy at the base ; lip spotted with brilliant carmine. 

 Flowers large and fragrant. Blooms in winter. 



