LYCASTE SKINNERI REGINA. 
[PLATE 283.] 
Native of Guatemala. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong-ovate, two to three inches high, compressed and 
furrowed with age. Leaves persistent, plaited, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, one to 
two feet in length, and three to four inches in breadth, and deep green. Scapes 
radical, usually one-flowered, more rarely two-flowered, about eight inches high, stout, 
furnished with a few lanceolate sheathing bracts. lowers large and fleshy, some seven 
Inches in diameter; sepals spreading, ovate-oblong, white flushed with rosy lake ; petals 
smaller, convolute over the column, oblong with recurved tips, bluntly acute, purplish 
crimson, shading to violet towards the base; lip small, concave, three-lobed, the 
middle lobe roundish, ovate, and deflexed, rich deep crimson. Column semi-terete, 
downy in front. 
Lycaste Sxrnnert Recinaz, Williams supra. 
The genus Lycaste does not comprise a very large number of species, but the 
majority of the kinds are showy and ornamental, and most of them produce their 
flowers during the winter months. JZ. Shinneri and its numerous varieties 18 
undoubtedly the most showy species in the family, the splendid colours of the flowers 
being beautifully blended and contrasted in the different forms, added to which the 
blooms are very large, and being thick and fleshy in texture, they last, either on 
the plants or when cut and placed in water, for several weeks. We are indebted to 
the late Mr. G. Ure Skinner for the introduction of this plant, he having discovered 
it in Guatemala many years ago, and in whose honour the species was named by 
Dr. Lindley. The name of Mr. Skinner will doubtless remain green in the memory 
of many Orchid-growers, not only through the numerous kinds that he introduced, but 
the enthusiastic manner in which he strove to render this class of plant popular. 
ur readers, 18 an 
The variety of Mr. Skinner’s Lycaste, which we now lay before o , 
extremely Penuht one, and Ree portrayed by our artist: - a: 
taken from a fine example growing in the collection of E. A. Roberts, Esq., Green 
Kent, where many fine forms of Lycastes and other Orchids are _. 0 
general habit and appearance the growth of L. Skinner Regine resembles the typ! 
, With j i _ It produces numerous flowers from 
Plant, with its broad dark green plaited leaves P Sant Wide irowiy thew 
the base of the pseudobulbs, after the latter have comp : 
Titccn measuring 5 ully seven inches across. These plants commence = ne —~ 
the autumn months, and those having a few plants at eommand ean—by re - zt 
of them—secure a succession of these beautiful flowers throughout the ar a 
Lycaste blooms last a considerable time in full beauty; si pity a eyes idly. 
as this is very detrimental, causing them soon — 
