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Rae LYCASTE BREVISPATHA. Rees 
YCASTE brevispatha is one of the smaller species of the L. macrophylla 
, Sroup, and the plant here figured is an unusually dwarf form which 
flowered in the collection of the late Frau Ida Brandt, of Zurich. The 
species is a native of Venezuela, and has been known in cultivation for a 
great many years, but never seems to have been common. _ It varies con- 
siderably in colour, and the plant known as L. Lawrenceana, which 
flowered in the collection of Mrs. Lawrence, of Ealing Park, is a form of 
the same. The general character of the flowers are seen in the illustration, 
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Fig. 13. LYcASTE BREVISPATHA. 
and we may add that the sepals are green with numerous red-brown? 
blotches, and the petals and lip white, blotched with bright rose, giving 42 
unusually attractive appearance in a well-grown specimen. There is also 4 
form of the species in which the rosy blotches are quite absent, and which 
bears the name of L. candida. This was confused by Lindley with L. 
leucantha, Klotzsch, a confusion that was pointed out by Reichenbach. of 
this the locality is said to have been Costa Rica, but comparatively little 
known about the geographical distribution of the species. It is a very 
pretty little plant, and of the easiest possible culture, and deserves to be 
better known in gardens, 
