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LYCASTB. 



thrce-fourtlis of the depth of the pot is found to be the most suitable, 

 and upon this the plants should be placed with the base of the pseudo- 

 bulbs about on a level with the rim of the pot. Water should be 

 freely supiilicd during the growing season, and even when the plants 

 are at rest the compost should at no time be allowed to become dry. 

 Light shading should be used dimng bright days in summer, but at 

 otlier times the plants should receive as much light as possible. 



Lycaste Skinneri may be grown in the cool house so long as the 

 temperature does not sink below 10° C. (50' F.). Ked spider some- 

 times attacks the leaves on the under side Avhich causes them to turn 

 yellow ; when they are detected the leaves should be sponged v/ith a 

 weak insecticide. 



Synopsis op Species and Varieties. 

 Lycaste aromatica. 



Pseudo-bulbs 1| — 2| inches long, dark dull green, mono-diphyllous. 

 Leaves 7 — 10 inches long. Scapes slender, 4 — 6 inches long. Flowers 

 with a strong aromatic fragrance, about 1| inch across the lateral 

 sepals ; sepals ovate-oblong, acute, fulvous yellow ; petals similar, bright 



Lycaste arumatica. 



orange-yellow ; lip three-lobed, the side lobes oblong, free at the apical 



end, incurved over the column, orange-yellow spotted with red ; the 



intermediate lobe oblong, obtuse, reflexed, coloured like the petals ; 



plate of disk grooved, thickened and truncate at the apex. Column 



slender, semi-terete, slightly bent, pubescent below the stigma, 



Lycaste aromatica, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, misc. p. 16. Rchb. in AValp. Ann. 

 VI. p. 600. Maxillaria aromatica, Hook. Exot. Flora, t. 219 (1823). Lindl. Gen. 

 et Sp. Orch. p. 116. Bot. Reg. t. 1871. 



