312 ORCHIDS. 



There are many varieties, differing in intensity of color, 

 and some with yellow instead of red on the lip ; there is 

 a pure white variety. 



This plant should not be allowed to dry up during 

 the resting season. All the varieties are beautiful. The 

 plant is very free blooming, and the flowers are almost 

 imperishable. 



C. Lycaste tetragona. Brazil B. R., 1428. 



B. M., 3146. 



The flowers are yellowish green and purple, with the 

 fragrance of violets. 



B. Lycaste tyrianthina. Brazil. 



Perianth clear wine-color ; lip golden yellow, striped 

 and marked with vivid purple. Flowers large, fragrant. 



This genus was separated from Maxillaria. The spe- 

 cies are of the easiest growth in pots, with peat, with 

 good drainage ; give plenty of water in the growing sea- 

 son, but very little during that of rest. 



Macodes. 

 A name for some species of Anactochilus. 



Macodes marmorata. See Ancectochilus Lowii. Reich. 

 Xen., i, 96. 



Macodes Petola. See Anactochilus Petola or imperial!*. 



Macrochilus. 



Macrochilus Fryanus was a name given to Miltonia spec- 

 talilis. (Fl. Cab., 45.) 



