LYCASTE SMEEANA. 
[PuaTe 516.] 
Native of Guatemala. 
Epiphytal. Psewdobulbs ovate, tumidly ribbed, two inches high, deep green. 
Leaves broadly ovate-lanceolate acuminate, ribbed, deep green. Svapes axillary from 
the base of the pseudobulbs, one-flowered, erect, slender, invested with greyish green 
sheathing bracts. Flowers four inches across, pure white; sepals ovate acute, of 
good substance, purest white ; petals ovate acute, white, densely covered with minute 
crimson-purple spots except near the apex; lip cucullate, three-lobed, mid-lobe ovate 
acuminate, reflexed, margined with purple, besides rows of small purple lines, the 
whole of the lip thickly covered with minute purple spots, callus with a very 
short, obscurely-keeled free portion, greenish yellow. Column clavate, greenish white, 
_ Spotted with purple at the base. : 
Lycaste Smenana, H. G. Reichenbach fil., Gardeners’ Chronicle, new series, 1883, 
Xx., p. 198. Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, part. ix., p. 97. Williams’ 
Orchid Grower's Manual, 7th edition, p. 479. Linden, Les Orchidées Exotiques, 
p- 818. 
This very interesting and beautiful plant is a supposed natural hybrid between 
Lycaste Skinneri and L. Deppet, and was first flowered in the select collection of 
_ Orchids belonging to A. H. Smee, Esq., The Grange, Carshalton, after whom it was 
hamed in 1883 by the late Professor Reichenbach.* In habit of growth it most 
resembles LL. Deppei, the flowers being intermediate in size between the two 
Supposed parents, and are white excepting the lip which is bordered with light 
purple and spotted over its entire surface. It produces its flowers during the 
autumn and winter months, and is therefore a valuable and welcome acquisition, 
especially for small collections, as Orchid flowers are scarce at that period. Lycastes 
do not appear to take high rank in the eyes of the Orchid-loving public, 
yet the chaste beauty of many of the species, such as L. Deppet, L. Harrisoniae 
and its variety eburnea, figured in the third volume on plate 100 of our work, 
L. plana, depicted on plate 230 of the fifth volume, and its variety Measuresiana, 
figured in the seventh volume on plate 306. L. Schilleriana, L. Skinneri, and 
its many varieties, one of which, Reginae, has been pourtrayed in this work, on 
plate 283 of the sixth volume, and lastly, the subject of the present plate entitles 
