522 FLOWERS OF GARDEN AND GREENHOUSE 
broad, leathery. Flowers 5 or 6 inches across, varying from white to 
rose ; lip as much as 3 inches long, rich purplish crimson. Frontispiece 
to vol. iv. There are many beautiful varieties of this, the finest, member 
of the genus. 
The instructions given under this head in relation to 
Cattleya apply equally to the present genus. L. purpwrata 
requires a tropical temperature, and Z. grandis likes extra warmth 
when growing. There are numerous garden hybrid Lelias, but what is 
said of the hybrid Cattleyas applies also to these. 
Description of Lelia purpurata. Fig. 1, entire plant greatly reduced; 
Frontispiece. 2 4 single flower, natural size; 3, the column; 4, the eight 
pollen-masses in a double series. 
Cultivation. 
LYCASTES 
Natural Order OncHIDEH. Genus Lycaste 
LycasTE (named after Lycaste, the daughter of Priam). A genus of 
about thirty species of stove or greenhouse Orchids, distinguished by 
having the lip furnished with a transverse fleshy appendage, in some 
species notched, in others entire. The anther is two-celled, producing 
four pollen-masses, which do not lie parallel to each other, as in Cattleya 
and others. Leaves plaited lengthwise. They are natives of Tropical 
America, extending from Peru to Mexico, and the West Indies. 
The earliest Lycastes introduced were then included 
in the genus Mawillaria. The series began with Lycaste 
Barrvngtonie, which was brought from the West Indies in 1790. Then 
there was a long break till 1824, when ZL. aromatica came from Mexico, 
whence also came L. Deppei in 1828. L. tetragona was introduced from 
Brazil in 1830, and JL. cristata from British Guiana in 1834 J. 
macrophylla, a Peruvian species, dates from 1837, L. eruenta (Guatemala) 
from 1841, and from the same country came the splendid L. Skinneri a 
year later. L. gigantea and L. lanipes came from Columbia and Ecuador 
respectively in 1848. LZ. jugosa (1867) and ZL. grandis (1884) are 
Brazilian plants ; and L. rugosa was introduced from Columbia in 1876. 
About half a dozen hybrids have been artificially raised. 
LYCASTE AROMATICA (aromatic). Flowers yellow, lip 
hairy; free-flowering ; winter and spring. Warm house. 
History. 
Principal Species. 
Mexico, 1826. 
L. (Paphinia) cristata (crested), Leaves oblong - lance - shaped. 
