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LYCASTE BREVISPATHA. 



There is a pretty little Lycaste generally cultivated under the name of 

 Lycaste Lawrenceana, whose portrait is now reproduced from a photo- 

 graph kindly sent by Frau Ida Brandt, of Zurich. Its correct name is a 

 matter of some uncertainty. In the Allg mg for 1851 



(xix., p. 217), it is described under the name of Maxillaria (Lycaste) 

 brevispatha, Klotzsch, from a plant which flowered in the collection of 

 Herr Nauen, and which had been collected in Guatemala, by Warscewicz. 

 It was described as being allied to Maxillaria (Lycaste) leucantha, Klotzsch, 

 but differing in having the bract shorter than the ovary, and other charac- 

 ters. Again we find it figured and described, by Lindley, under the name 



of Lycaste leucantha, Klotzsch (Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., pp. 37, 38, f 

 but it is not the Maxillaria (Lycaste) leucantha, Klotzsch (Allg. Gartenz., 

 1850, p. 402), which is what Lindley intended. He observed that it was 

 "remarkable for numerous varieties in the size and colour of the flowers. 

 The first that blossomed, being quite white, received the provisional name of 

 L. Candida, now superseded by that of leucantha. . . . During the present 

 spring others have appeared .... some of which, instead of being 

 colourless, are richly stained with crimson." On the strength of the remark 

 just made, the species has since been called L. Candida, but the name, as 

 applied to this species, is quite misleading, and under the circumstances 



