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Cidture. — Tliej- should be grown on a block of wood, using a little 

 sphagnum moss about their roots, suspended near the roof-glass in 

 moderate sunshine, and treated as other plants in the East Indian 

 house. 



L. AMESIANA, Hoii. — The growth of this species resembles that of Tanda 

 teres. Flowers produced in clusters at the sides of the stem about an inch in 

 diameter ; sepals and petals pale yellow, streaked and speckled with purple- 

 brown on the outside ; lip whitish-yellow with purple-maroon spots. First 

 flowered in England by Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., and exhibited by him before 

 the Royal Horticultural Society on June 20th, 1893. — India. 



¥lG.—Oard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 32, f. 8. 



L. PSYCHE, Rchh.f. — An old species discovered by the Rev. C. S. Parish, 

 and sent by him to Messrs. H. Low & Co. In habit it resembles the preceding, 

 but the flowers are produced mostly in pairs and remind one of those of the 

 Bee-Orchis ; they are green in colour with large spathulate petals, and a large 

 roundish lip, which is covered by deep rich purple spots. — Burmah. 



Fig —Gard. Chron., 1863, p. 842 (woodcut) ; But. Marj., t. 5558 ; Batcm. Secona 

 Cent. Orch. PI. t. 174 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 35, f. 11. 



L. VOLUCRIS, Lindl. — This is the most curious species we have yet seen ; 

 the flowers have a resemblance to " small birds with outstretched wings " ; they 

 are produced singly from the base of the leaves ; the sepals and petals are 

 creamy-white ; the lip, which resembles a lepidopterons chrysalis, is purplish- 

 brown. This was also flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, and exhibited by him 

 together with L. Amesiana. — Khania Hills. 



Fia.— Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1893, xiv. p. 32, 1 9. 



LY CASTE, Lindley. 



(_Trlbe Vandeae, mibtriie Cyrtopodieae.) 

 The Lijcastes are mostly very useful plants. All the species have 

 short thick pseudobulbs, and ribbed or plicate leaves, and the flowers 

 are produced from the base of the pseudobulbs on scapes about 

 6 inches in length, and are not only large but showy, and remarkably 

 durable. They have somewhat ringent flowers with erecto-patent sepals, 

 the petals are dissimilar and produced into a short chin at the base, and 

 the lip has a traiisverse fleshy appendage between its lateral lobes. 

 Several fine varieties have appeared during the past few years, chiefly 

 belonging to L. SMnneri, and differing veiy much from each other in 

 colour. There are some twenty-five known species, which are found in 

 Tropical America and the West Indies. 



