0» LYCASTE. 



ovato at apL'X ])a.ssing into a lu'oad koel l)clo\v. Column clavate, 



liairy on tlie anterior face, while s])uttcHl Avitli red. 



Lycasti! Deppei, Liiidl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. p. l.i. llchb. in Walp. Ann. 

 VI. p. 602. Maxillaria Deppei, Lodd. Bot. Gab. t. 1612 (1830). Bot. Mag. t. 

 3395. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 147. 



var. — punctatissima. 



Sepals longer and narrower tliim in the typo, yellow-green densely 



spotted with reddish carmine, the white petals and yellow lip also 



spotted with red-carmine, the sjwts on the petals more dispersed, and 



those on the lip larger than on the sepals. 



L. Deppei punctatissima, RcW). in Gard. Chron. XVI. (1881), p. 717. Williams' 

 Orch. Alb. VI. t. 262. 



A very old denizen of British gardens, it having been intro- 

 duced by Messrs. Loddiges in 1828 through Deppe, who collected 

 it near Xalapa in Mexico. It flowered in Earl Fitzwilliam's collection 

 at Wentworth, near Sheffield, in 1834, on which occasion it was 

 figured in the Bolanical Magazine, but it seems to have been very 

 rare for some time afterwards. The variety, a very remarkable one, 

 was introduced by the late Mr. B. S. Williams, of Holloway; the 

 only plant we have seen of it is in the collection of Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence,, Bart., at Burford Lodge. 



L. fulvescens. 



Pseudo-bulbs variable in size, the largest 4 — 5 inches long and ]| — 2 



inches broad, diphyllous. Leaves 15 — 20 inches long. Scapes as long 



again as the- pseudo-bulbs. Flowers large and drooping ; sepals and 



petals lanceolate, acuminate, fulvous-brown, much paler at the base, the 



sepals nearly 3 inches long, the lateral two sub-falcate, the petals much 



smaller; lip oblong, obtuse, three-loljed, orange-brown, the front lobe 



fringed at the margin ; plate of disk grooved, thickened and emarginate 



at the apex. Column semi-terete, whitish. 



Lvcaste fulvescens, Hook, in But. Mag. t. 4193 (1845). Lindl. Orch. Lind. No. 

 108, p. 21 (1846). Rchb. in. Walp. Ann. VI. p. 605. 



Discovered by Linden in 1842 on the eastern Cordillera of New 



Granada at 6,000 feet elevation, near Ocaua, and subsequently 



gathered by Schlim and Wagoner in the same region; it occurs on 



the Cordillera from Ocana southwards as far as Bogota. It was 



first cultivated in this country by the Eev. John Clowes, of Broughton 



Hall, Manchester, in whose collection it flowered in 1845. The 



peculiar drooping habit of the flowers and their unusual colouration 



well distinguish this species among Lycastes. 



