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LYCASTE. 



fig. 3), sepals and petals white faintly tinted with white rose, lip 

 crimson-purple ; superha (FL May. t. 24), sepals white with a faint 

 flush of light rose, petals dark carmine, li]) white with yellow crest. 



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Lycaste Skinneri. 



Unquestionably the finest of the discoveries of Mr. G. Uro Skinner 

 in Guatemala^, who brought it to England in great numbers in 

 1841.* It flowered for the first time in this country in the 



* In Fescatorea, sub. t. 39, the merit of introducing Lycaste SHnneri into European 

 gardens is claimed by M. Linden. Mr. Bateman's first announcement of the species appeared 

 m the Botanical llegister of 1842 ; Pescatorea was published at Brussels in 1800. The 

 claim of prior discovery and introduction by Linden was thence brought forward too late, 

 apd on that ground alone cannot be seriously entertained, 



