LYCASTE. 85 



First sent by Lord Napier from Mexico to the Botanic Garden 

 at Edinburgh some time previous to the year 1826 ; it is therefore 

 an old denizen of British gardens, in which its pleasant fragrance 

 has always secured for it a place ; its Mexican habitat does not 

 appear to have been recorded. In the miscellaneous matter of the 

 Botanical Register of 1844, p. 41, Dr. Lindley mentions a variety 

 " with very clear yolk-of-egg yellow flowers, and the middle lobe of 

 the lip dilated and almost two-lobed,^' said to have been received 

 from Lima by Mr. Barker, of- Birmingham, but which seems to 

 have been since lost. 



L. Candida. 



Pseudo-bulbs IJ — 2| inches long. Leaves 9 — 12 inches long. 

 Scapes one-third as long as the leaves. Flowers about 2 inches in 

 diameter ; sepals oval-oblong, acute, reflexed at the tip, pale green 

 sometimes freckled or spotted with light rose ; petals smaller, whitish 

 more or less tinted with light rose ; lip obovate-oblong, obscurely 

 three-lobed, of a purer white than the petals, and with a few rose- 

 purple spots ; plate of disk thiu, oblong, thickened and emargiuate at 

 the apex. Column slender, terete, bent towards the apex, hairy below 

 the stigma, white spotted with rose. 



Lycaste Candida, Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. II. p. 37, icon. xyl. (1852). Rchb. 

 in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 604. L. Lawrenceana, Hort. 



One of the dwarf est species in the genus. It was discovered by 

 Warscewicz in Central America in 1849 — 50, and introduced by him 

 shortly afterwards. Horticulturists distinguish the sub-variety, in which 

 all the floral segments are more or less tinted with rose, by the 

 name of Lycaste Lawrenceana. 



L. ciliata. 



Pseudo-bulbs 2 — 3 inches long, diphyllous. Leaves 7 — 10 inches 



long. Scapes a little longer than the pseudo-bulbs. Sepals and petals 



green, ovate-lanceolate, the lateral sepals sub-falcate, the petals smaller 



than the sepals ; lip oblong, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, white ; 



the terminal lobe fringed, with a larger concavity at its base and a 



smaller one at its apex, pale buff-yellow ; plate of the disk rather 



broad, grooved, with three raised lines in the concavity. Column 



trigonal, arched, white. 



Lycaste ciliata, supra, not of Rchb.* Maxillaria ciliata, Ruiz et Pav. Fl. Peruv. 

 p. 226 ; and Syst. Veg. p. 221 (1798). Bot. Reg. t. 1206. Bot. Mag. t. 4081. 

 Dendrobium ciliatum, Pars. Syst. PI. p. 523 (1805). 



Materials for description, under the name of Lycaste Barringtonice , 

 * Bonpl. IV. p. 324 ; and Walp. Ann. VI. p. 606. 



