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Tas, 4445 
LYCASTE Sxk1nnert. 
Mr. Skinner's Lycaste. 
Nat. Ord. Oxncu1ppa,—Gynanpria MoNANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4193.) 
\ iit ee 
LycastE Skinneri; bractea herbacea acuta cucullata ovario multo longiore, 
sepalis patentibus oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, petalis duplo brevioribus 
ovalibus erectis supra columnam convolutis apicibus reflexis, labelli 3-lobi 
lobis lateralibus erectis truncatis intermedio longiore ovato-rotundato de- 
flexo, appendice carnosa linguzeformi inter lacinias laterales locata, columma 
subtus pubescente. Lindl. 
Lycaste Skinneri. Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1848. Mise. p.15. 
MaxiLnarta Skinneri. Bateman in Bot. Reg. 1843, Misc. n.13. Orchid. Mex. 
et Guat. tab.35 (not Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1840, Misc. n. 101). 
Mr. Bateman, who has done great justice to this plant by his 
splendid figure above quoted, says with truth: “This is the 
facile princeps of all known Maxillarias ;” and with equal justice 
does he dedicate this fine species to its discoverer, J. Ure 
Skinner, Esq., to whom the Orchideous stoves of Europe are 
indebted for their most brilliant ornaments. ‘It is a native 
of Guatemala, and remarkable no less for the large size of the 
blossoms, than for their chaste colouring, white spotted and 
suffused with rich rose and crimson. It is a ready flowerer, 
and the flowers remain a long time in great beauty. 
Descr. Pseudo-bulbs oblong-ovate, compressed, bearing at the 
top a pair of large, oblong-lanceolate, membranaceous, plaited 
leaves. Scape radical, single-flowered, shorter than the leaves, fur- 
nished with five or six sheathing bracteas, the upper one sheathing 
the ovary. Flower very large, of a thickish and almost waxy 
texture. Sepals (five or six inches across from tip to tip) patent, 
oval, acute, faintly striated, white tinged with blush. Petals 
smaller than the sepals, broadly ovate, very acute, concave, also 
faintly striated, white, more tinged with blush than the sepals, 
almost conniving so as to form a hood over the column, the 
MAY lst, 1849. 
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