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requirements of the florist, occurs iu the fact that the facile princeps 

 of the genus L;/caste Skinneri, which would be used in every cross, 

 does not usually flower at a season when any other species is in 

 bloom. The few hybrid Lycastes of supposed natural origin or 

 raised artificiallj'^ do not appear to have excited much interest. Our 

 knowledge of the forms here described is derived solely from the 

 notices of them in the places quoted. 



Lycaste hybrida. 



A hybrid raised artificially from Lijcade Deppei and L. Slinneri 

 by Mr. W. Marshall, of Auchinraith, Bexley. The flowers are nearly 

 as large as those of L. Skinner i ; sepals and petals creamy white 

 with a faint tinge of green and thickly dotted with purple on the 

 basal half ; lip yellow densely spotted with crimson on the basal half, 

 pure yellow on the recurved front lobe ; the tongue-shaped plate of 

 the disk orange-yellow. 



Lycaste hybrida, Gard. Chron. X. (1878), p. 535, inedit. 



L. Schoenbrunnensis. 



A hybrid that flowered in the autumn of 1892 in the collection of 

 the Emperor of Austria, at Schonbrunn, near Vienna. Lycaste Skinneri 

 is one parent and L. Scliilleriana is supposed to be the other. The 

 sepals are 2| mches long, rose-pink with a distinctly glaucous surface ; 

 the petals yellowish white at the base and suff'used with light pink 

 above ; the lip has a light yellow ground, the crest and side lobes 

 densely spotted and freckled with light piu-ple-crimson. The column 

 is white, except at the base which together with its foot is very 

 deep purple-crimson. 



Lycaste Schoenbrunnensis, Orchid Review, vol. L p. 51. 



L. Smeeana. 



A supposed natural hybrid between Lycaste Deppei and L. Skinneri 

 tbat appeared in the collection of Mr. A. H. iSraee at The Grange, 

 Hackbridge. The flowers have nearly the shape of those of L. Deppei, 

 but larger ; the colour is white except the lip, of which the side 

 lobes have a purple margin and the whole surface is spotted and 

 striped with purple. 



Lycaste Smeeana, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. XX. (1883), p. 198. 



L. sulphurea. 



A supposed natural hybrid between Lycaste Deppei and L. cruenta that 

 appeared in the nursery of Mr, William Bull at Chelsea. The flowers 

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