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may be grown on lumps of wood, yet the enfeebling effect of drought on 
the roots when thus exposed is much to be feared, and consequently is 
better avoided by placing them in pots. 
190. Lycaste macrophyllum. Plant pseudo-bulbous, bulbs three inches 
long, ovate, angular; leaves in pairs, nearly three feet long and five inches 
broad; the flowers are borne on a stem six inches long, and are solitary, 
sepals oblong, lanceolate, of a pale green, petals nearly white, smaller than 
the sepals, and of a cucullate form; labellum fringed, white spotted a little 
with purple. This species is of very strong growth, and is worthy of being 
in every collection: it requires pot cultivation in a mixture of sphagnum, 
turfy peat, rotten wood, and a little charcoal with a liberal supply of water 
when growing, temperature 65°. — A Native of Columbia. 
191. Ly caste Deppeii. Plant pseudo-bulbous, bulbs ovate, angles rounded, 
leaves oblong, lanceolate, usually from eighteen inches to two feet long; 
flowers erect, single ; sepals oblong, lanceolate, green spotted with purplish 
red ; petals white, smaller than the sepals, spotted and striped with crimson ; 
labellum three-lobed, of a bright orange, the two side lobes spotted and 
striped with crimson. This species requires the same cultivation as the 
above. — A Native of Xalapa. 
192. Ly caste plana. Plant pseudo-bulbous, bulbs three inches long, ovate, 
angular ; leaves in pairs, nearly three feet long ; the flowers are similar in 
colour to L. macrophyllum, but altogether more beautiful than that species, 
as it possesses more the rich red wine-colour, so conspicuous in the lip ; 
and requires the same treatment. — A Native of Bolanos. 
John Henshall, K— p—y. 
( To be continued .) 
LIST OF NEW PLANTS. 
OncHiDACEiE. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Cattleya superba. A very splendid species of Cattleva and a fragrant one. 
It was detected in British Guiana by Mr. Schomburgh, and by him living 
plants were sent to Messrs. Loddiges, who flowered them in 1838. Its 
discoverer remembers that in beauty, odour, and duration, it is not to be 
surpassed by any orchideous plant, the odour in the morning and evening 
becoming too powerful for a confined place, and its splendid flowers last for 
two or three weeks. The stem or pseudo-bulb is six to f eight inches long, 
terminated by two broadly oblong, dark green leaves, from between which 
rises the peduncle bearing four or five large handsome fragrant flowers; the 
sepals spreading, oblong, rather acute, full rose-colour; petals resembling 
them except that they are broader upwards; the lip is remarkable for its deep 
purple-red colour, paler at the edges of the side-lobes and on the disk, 
where it becomes yellowish, and is marked with elevated lines..— Bot. Mag. 
Orchidace^:. — Gynandria Monandria. 
Epidendrum vitellinum. This is one of the pseudo-bulbous section of 
Epidendra, and has finer and broader foliage than is usual among them; 
from its kindred species it is readily recognised in the peculiar appearance 
communicated by the glaucous bloom which overspreads the leaves; the 
flower-spike proceeds from the apex of the bulb, and bears from ten to 
fifteen large orange-red flowers, the sepals and petals being of that colour, 
