LYCASTE PLANA. 
[PLATE 230.] 
Native of Peru. 
Be ‘Epiphytal.  Psewdobulbs oblong obtuse, slightly ribbed or angular, about three 
inches long, dark green. Leaves broadly oblong-lanceolate, strongly nervose, one and 
a half foot long, produced two or three together from the apex of the pseudobulb. 
Scapes radical, one-flowered, green, furnished with distinct brown lanceolate bracts 
sheathing at the base, the upper one ventricose and cucullate, larger than the ovary. 
Flowers about three and a half inches across when the lateral sepals are expanded, 
and having the lip handsomely coloured ; sepals oblong acute, two inches long, 
spreading, the base connate into a short conical horn, the tips recurved, reddish-brown 
in the lower half, the upper half green; petals similar in form but shorter, projected 
forwards but recurved so that the tips become spreading, white slightly tinged with 
green; lip three-lobed, the lateral lobes crenulate at the apex and there stained with 
pale crimson, the middle lobe roundish ovate serrated, of a rich crimson; callus 
elevated, obtuse, obsoletely three-lobed. Column pubescent, white. 
Lycaste pana, Lindley, Botanical Register, 1842, misc. 96; Jd. 1843, t. 35, 
et misc. page 15; Williams, Orchid-Growers’ Manual, 6 ed., 380. 
The species of Lycaste form a most useful group of Orchids, and they are moreover 
of an ornamental character, for there are amongst them many forms and colours that 
help to make our Orchid houses gay during the autumn and winter seasons. They can 
be grown in cool houses, they are free blooming, and they are of easy eultivation. 
The species that we now submit to the notice of our subscribers is a very distinct 
And. is quite worthy of a place in every collection. We are indebted for the 
opportunity of figuring it, to R. H. Measures, Esq., Woodlands, Streatham, in whose 
Nich collection our artist took his drawing. 
Lycaste plana is an evergreen species with large ovate oblong ribbed pseudobulbs, 
ld, oval, lanceolate, plicate leaves, and flowers some three and a half inches across, 
having flat oblong Spreading sepals, which in the form originally figured by Dr. 
‘ dley, were of a fine madder-red colour, the smaller white petals with a rosy 
naeson blotch having in it an eye-like spot of white on their recurved tips, and the 
still smaller white lip being spotted with rosy crimson. In the form here illustrated 
a a als are partly green, and the lip is of a rich crimson. It flowers during 
the ‘winter, and lasts several weeks in bloom. : as th 
€ Lycastes are of easy culture, and will thrive exceedingly well in pots wi 
Sood drainage, if : : ; d a little leaf mould mixed 
vie : provided with some good fibrous peat an oe a tie 
mit The plants should be well elevated above the pot rim, as ar 
