LYCASTE HAERISONI^ EBURNEA. 



[Plate 100.] 



Kative of Brazil. 



Epiphytal. Pseudohulbs ovate, tetragonal, fiirro\\'Gd, monoph} 



the young 



ones sheathed with brown membranaceous bracts. Leaves broadly lanceolate acute, 



narrowed to the base, strongly ribbed or plicate, rigid, dark green. 



Race 



two- 



flowered, radical 

 bracts. 



shorter than the leaves, the peduncle furnished with appressed 



Flowers large and attractive, nearly three inches across ; sepals 

 waxy in texture ; dorsal one oblong, obtuse, broader upwards, somewhat incurved, the 



lateral ones spreading horizontally, falcato-oblon 



lower side produced so as to 



cover 



the 



spur 



of the lip ; petals obovate, about as long as the dorsal sepal, bf an 



y- white wax-like appearance and stout fleshy texture ; lip large, 



at the base where 



enclosed by the lateral 



narrowed 

 broader upwards, three-lobed : 



lateral lobes incurved and meeting the column, which they exceed, the margm 



with one or two broadish lobes primrose-yellow, covered with stroi 

 reddish purple veins : front lobe smaller, oblong obtuse, recurved 

 with a few finer purple veins at the edge ; 



which 



blunt and much thickened 



dish 



front 



ith a broad 



gly marked forked 

 undulated, white, 



yellow hairy 



Column adnate for much of 



len^h, and meeting the base of 



the petals and sepals, the free portion incurved 



semiterete 



Lycaste Harrisoni^ EBURNEA, Moove, supra 



We trust that the illustration we have now the pi 



to submit to our 



readers, may be the means of inducing Orchid Growers to take up the cultivation 



of the plants of this family for decorative purposes more than is done at the 

 present time. They produce fine handsome flowers, and such kinds as X. Skinneri are 



most 



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in Mr. Warner's Select Orchidaceous Plants, in 

 varieties are well shown 



seful for winter decoration. Tliere is a fine plate representing L. Sh 



which the light and dark coloured 



There are among them 



and they 



free blooming, lasting for 



many distinct and varied colours, 

 weeks in beauty; indeed, when grown 



on. Some persons object to • the 



in a cool house, they continue still longer in perfection. 



Lycastes on account of the stiff rigid form of their flowers, while other cultivators 



the best forms and varieties, find in them a source of much gratification. 



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W. Lee, Esq., of Leatherhead, has some wonderful varieties of the L. SI 



t} 



some 



of them dark red, others mauve-pink or pure white, and there are besides 



various 



other shades of colour; these all blooming at the same time, and intermixec 



with plants of graceful foliage, produce the decorative efi'ect th 



one looks for in 



our Orchid houses 



The plant 



our plate represents belongs to a different 



ipecies 



Z. Hi 



of the older of cultivated Orchids 



The drawing was , taken from a 



miWy one 

 specimen 



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