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been acquired at an English sale by Mr. G. TJre Skinner. This 

 was the only one known for many years till about 1880, when 

 specimens were sent by various correspondents to the late Professor 

 Eeichenbach for identification, and which were supposed to have 

 been imported from New Granada, a supposition since confirmed 

 by plants being received from that country from various orchid 

 collectors. The flowers of Lycaste 8cliilleriana are among the largest 

 in the genus, but they are of dull and unattractive colours.* 



L. Skinneri. 



Pseudo-bulbs 2| — 3 inches long, di-triphyllous. Leaves 15 — 20 or 



more inches long. Scapes from one-third to one half as long as the 



leaves. Flowers the handsomest and largest in the genus, 5 — 6 inches 



across the lateral sepals ; sepals oval-oblong, sub-acute, reflexed at the 



tip, tbe dorsal sepal with a small green apiculus, delicate light rose 



more or less suffused with white ; petals similar but much smaller and 



more deeply coloured ; lip ovate in outline, distinctly three-lobed, rose 



and crimson-carmine of many shades, often mottled and spotted in 



various ways with white, rarely wholly white ; the side lobes roundish, 



oblong, erect ; the terminal lobe ovate, obtuse, reflexed ; plate of disk 



tongue-shaped, hairy. Column triquetral, hairy l)elow the stigma, white 



stained with crimson. 



Lycaste Skinneri, Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. 1843, misc. p. 15. Bot. Mag. t. 4445. 

 Van Houtte's Fl. des Serres, IF. t. 303. Paxt. Mag. Bot. XL p. I. Linden's 

 Pesc. t. 39. Fl. and Pomol. 1861, p. 65. II. Mag. t. 192. Jennings' Orch. t. 9. 

 The Garden, XX F. (1884), t. 440. Maxillaria Skinneri, LindL in Bot. Reg. 1842, 

 misc. No. 13. Batera. Orch. Mex. ct Guat. t. 35. 



SUb-Vars. — alha (Linden's Pesc, t. 39, fig. 2. Jennings' Orch. t. 9, fig. 2. 

 FJ. Mag. n.s. t. 35, fig. 1. AVilliams' Orch. All V. t. 234. Lindenia, 

 IV. t. 153), flowers white, with the crest of the lip light yellow; 

 armeniaca (Sander's Beichenbachia, s. 2, t. 18), sepals white, petals and 

 lip suffused with apricot-yellow ; beJIa, sepals white tinted with rose- 

 carmine towards the base, petals rose-carmine mottled with white, lip 

 dark crimson margined with white ; deUcatinsima (Warner's SeL Orch. I. 

 t. 10, fig. 1), sepals and petals white tinted with light rose, lip white 

 sparingly spotted with rose ; Mr. Young's, sepals and petals faintly tinted 

 Avith light rose, lip rose-carmine darker at the lateral margins ; nigro- 

 rtibra {Fl. Mag. x.s. t. 35, fig. 2. Reginca, Williams' Orrh. Alb. VI. 

 t. 283), sepals tinted with rose-carmine, petals purplish crimson, lip 

 maroon-crimson; lyicturata (Warner's SeL Orch. I. t. 10, fig. 2), sepals 

 and petals light rose, lip white stained with crimson at the base, the 

 front lobe spotted with crimson; purpurata (Warner's Sel. Orrh. I. t. 10, 



* The variety Lchinanni as figured in the Gartcnjiora appears to be an iniprovcniuut in 

 t-his respect. 



