92 LTCASTE. 



L. plana. 



Pseudo-bulbs 2-| — Sh inches long, di-tripliyllous. Leaves 18 — 24 inches 



long. Scapes about as long again as the pseudo-bulbs Flowers 4 inches 



across the lateral sepals ; sepals oblong, acute, olive-green tinged with 



brown, pale green at the reflexed apex ; petals elliptic-oblong, reflexed 



at the apex, white, the central area sometimes spotted with rose-carmine ; 



lip oblong, obtuse, three-lobed, the side lobes erect, whitish at the base, 



mottled with rose-carmine at the apex ; the intermediate lobe with 



denticulate margin, ivory-white with a few crimson spots near the 



lateral margins, rarely wholly crimson ; plate of disk tongue-shaped, 



narrowed towards the base. Column semi-terete, pubescent, white. 



Lycaste plana, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1842, p. 85 ; 1843, t. 35 ; and misc. p. 15. 

 WiUiams' Orch. Alb. V. t. 230. L. macrophylla, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1843, misc. 

 p. 14. Rclib. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 602. Maxillaria macrophylla, Poppig et Endl. 

 nov. Gen. et Sp. I. t. 64. ex Lindl. in Bot. Reg. 1838, misc. p. 92. 



Sub-var. — Mr. Meamn'>i (Williams' Orch. Alb. VII. t. 306), sepals olive- 

 brown, green at the apex ; petals densely spotted with carmine-purple 

 with a narrow white border ; lip similarly spotted except the apical 

 area. 

 Originally discovered by the German botanist, Poppig, always 

 growing on the ground in thickets near Cucliero, in the trans- Andean 

 parts of Upper Peru (now Bolivia), and subsequently gathered on 

 the Peruvian Andes, where it appears to have a considerable range. 

 It was first imported by Messrs. Loddiges, in whose nursery it 

 flowered in 1842. The sub-variety, which difiers from the species 

 in colour only, is a very distinct and rare one ; the only plant 

 of it known to us is in the collection of Mr. R. H. Measures, at 

 The Woodlands, Streatham. 



L. Schilleriana. 



Pseudo-bulbs 4 — 5 inches long, diphyllous. Leaves 20 — 25 or more 



inches long. Scapes about a foot long. Sepals ligulate acuminate, 



3 inches long, pale olive-green ; petals oblong, acute, half as long as 



the sepals, ivory-white ; lip as long as the petals and nearly equal to 



them, three-lobed, the side lobes narrowly oblong, erect, yellowish ; the 



intermediate lobe oblong, obtuse, minutely denticulate, ivory-white ; plate 



of disk as long as the side lobes, narrow, grooved. Column semi-terete, 



hairy below the stigma. 



Lycaste Schilleriana, Rchb. in Bonpl. IIL p. 215 (1855). Id. in Walp. Ann. 

 VI. p. 604. Saunders' Eef. Bot. II. t. 130. Regel's Gartenfl. 1890, t. 1321, 

 var. Lehmanni. 



The precise habitat of this species is not certainly known. It 



first became known to horticulture through a plant that flowered in 



Consul Schiller's collection at Hamburg in 1854, and this plant had 



