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LYCASTE LUCIANI van imscu. et coen. 
M. LUCIEN LINDEN’S LYCASTE. 
LYCASTEH. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, p. 11. 
Lycaste Luciani. Pseudobulbis ovoideis, compressis, longitudinaliter distincte sulcatis; foliis magnis, late lan- 
ceolatis, inferne angustis conduplicatisque; scapo vix compresso, paulo flexuoso, sparse plurivaginato, vaginis laxis, 
inferioribus acutis, superioribus acuminatis; bractea ovato-lanceolata, breviter acuminata, ovario longiore; sepalis 
patentibus, subplanis, oblongis, obtusis et crasse apiculatis, basi intus dense araneoso pilosis, praecipue lateralibus, 
caeteris glabris; petalis erectis apice leviter recurvis, satis concavis, obovato-oblongis, acutiusculis, sepalo dorsali 
satis brevioribus; labello petalis paulo breviore, erecto, ambitu anguste obovato, breviter unguiculato, lobis latera- 
libus apice late rotundatis et leviter undulatis intus leviter puberulis, lobo terminali reflexo anguste ovato, inferne 
satis constricto, apice obtuso subrotundato intus dense villoso-tomentoso, extus brevissime denseque puberulo, disco 
ad medium longitudinaliter cristato, callo inter lobis lateralibus crasso integro, apice late rotundato ; columna elongata, 
suberecta, antice inferne vix puberula superne longe denseque villosa, basi in pedem brevem producta. 
Lycaste Luciani VAN Imscu. et Coan, in Journ. des Orch., 4me année, p. 361 (1894); The Orchid Review, 
II, p. 30 et 75. 
L. Lucieniana Hort., Rev. de VHortic, Belg., XX, p. 47. 
L. Lucianiana Hort. The Orchid Review, Il, p. 28. 
his remarkable species is dedicated to M. Lucmn Linpen, director of 
L’Horticutture INTERNATIONALE. It has ovoid pseudobulbs, with several 
distinct longitudinal furrows, 7 cm. broad, each bearing four leaves 
on the plant which we have examined. The leaves are light green, flaccid, 
7o cm. or more long, 13 to 14 cm. broad. The scape, about 3/4 inch long, 
is of a pleasant green, rather slender, scarcely compressed, somewhat flexuose ; 
it bears three to four lax vaginae, yellowish green, 3 to 4 cm. broad, soldered 
below along their edges to about half their length; the upper one, forming a 
bract, is more broad, and sensibly longer than the ovary. The sepals are oblong, 
abruptly apiculate at their apex, nearly plane, but little concave at their basal 
part, of a somewhat greenish white, strongly stained and dotted of purple inter- 
nally; the upper one is erect, somewhat reflexed at the apex, 7 cm. long, 
24 mm. broad, somewhat villose internally at the base; the lateral ones are 
spreading, 7*/, cm. long, 2,4 cm. broad, densely covered internally at the base 
with a white down. The sepals are erect, with the apex somewhat rolled outside, 
rather concave, obovate-oblong, somewhat acute at their apex, 5 cm. long, 
2 */, cm. broad, of a nice white, but stained and spotted with purple towards their 
base. The lip is erect, yellowish white, with numerous purple dots, obovate in 
shape, 4 */, cm. long and nearly 3 cm. broad at its middle; the lateral lobes are 
rounded and somewhat wavy at their apical margin; the anterior lobe is reflexed, 
of a dark purple, narrowly ovate, contracted at its base, nearly rounded at 
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