LYCASTE DEPPEI PUNCTATISSIMA. 
[PraTE 262.] 
Native of Guatemala. 
_  Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs rather large, about three inches in height, ovate, com- 
pressed, deeply ribbed. Leaves about three in number, oblong-lanceolate acute, strongly 
plicate, a foot high, light green, persistent. Scapes radical, one-flowered, proceeding 
from the base. of the pseudobulbs after their growth is completed, erect, eight to 
ten inches high, clothed with large lanceolate sheathing and somewhat inflated 
bracts, the upper ones being the largest. Flowers larger than in the type, about 
five inches in expansion, and quite distinct in their colouring; sepals oblong-lanceolate, 
entire, the dorsal one erect, the lateral ones spreading at right angles, very slightly 
falcato-decurved, greenish white, all thickly covered with small rosy purple spots; 
petais much shorter, ovate, creamy white, finely dotted with purple ; lip ps, rd 
three-lobed, yellow with dark purple radiating lines on the rounded side lobes, and 
with blotches of the same colour on the ovate acuminate reflexed anterior lobe ; 
the disk bears an elevated ovate appendage or callus, whence a keel passes to 
the base of the lip. 
_ ycastre Depper puncratisstma, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.8., 
xvL, 717; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 378 
and when it bloomed 
This new Lycaste was introduced by us a few years ago, 
distinct 
passed into the hands of Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., M.P. It is a most 
form of Lycaste Deppei, with beautifully spotted flowers, and is the only one of 
its kind that has come under our notice, so that it must be a very rare plant ;- 
but no doubt when our plate comes before those who are engaged in the collecting of 
Orchids they will be on the look out to secure more of it. It was named by 
Professor Reichenbach, to whom we sent the first flower that the plant produced. 
It was imported with LZ. Deppei, which is itself a pretty species when well grown, 
as it produces flowers profusely when the bulbs are strong and vigorous. 
There are many other interesting species of Lycaste. One is L. Skinneri, which 
exists in great variety, and of colours which produce a fine show in winter, as they 
vary from pure white and purple to crimson and mauve, with other intermediate 
hues. JL. Skinneri is, moreover, a remarkably free bloomer, the flowers are of long 
duration, and the plant is of easy culture. We owe a great debt to the late Mr. 
Skinner, by whom it was introduced, and after whom it is named, for his per- 
severance in collecting so many fine Orchids—a class of plants for which he had a 
great love that acted as a stimulus in collecting them. 
Lycaste Deppei unctatissima is an evergreen epiphy 
bulbs about three inches in height, and from the base of these, 
te, with ribbed pseudo- 
that is to say, by 
