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ELLEANTHUS capiTaTus,—The genus Elleanthus, which comprises about 
45 species, natives of tropical America, from the West Indies and Central 
America to Brazil and Peru, is so rarely. represented in European gardens 
that the flowering of E. capitatus in the collection of Col. Stephenson R,. 
Clarke, C.B., Borde Hill, Cuckfield, Sussex, is worthy of note. The plant 
consists of numerous erect stems bearing papery leaves, producing dense 
heads of numerous rosy-purple flowers. Last season no less than twenty 
of these spikes were produced, and as each one now carries four or five 
Seed-pods it is apparent that self-fertilisation occurs. Under its original 
name of Bletia capitata, Robert Brown in 1813 mentioned this species as 
being cultivated in Kew Gardens. In 1835 it bore the name Evelyna 
capitata, and in 1861 it was removed to its present position in the genus 
Elleanthus. Colonel Clarke received his plant direct from the West Indies. 
In Jamaica E. capitatus grows toa height of four feet and over, the flowering 
season being July and August. 
Lycastr Lucianit.—In 1891 a distinct Lycaste flowered in the collection 
of M. A. Van Imschoot, of Ghent, among some plants of L. Skinneri, 
imported from Guatemala. It was then divided into two, and failed to 
flower the following year, but on December roth, 1893, a plant was 
exhibited by M. Van Imschoot at the meeting of the Orchidéene, at 
Brussels, under the name of L. Lucianiana, and received a First-class: 
Diploma of Honour. Two days later it was exhibited by Messrs. Linden: 
at the Royal Horticultural Society and obtained a Botanical Certificate, on 
It was es described (Journ. des 
this occasion as L. Lucianii. 
near L. lasioglossa and L. 
Orch., iv., p. 361) as a beautiful ‘“ species,” 
Skinneri, and afterwards figured (Lindenia, t. 412), when, though still called 
a “species,” it is remarked that M. Van Imschoot thinks it"may be a 
natural hybrid between L. lasioglossa and L. Skinneri. It is evidently a 
natural hybrid, and a very decorative one, too, judging by the specimen 
