PL. CCCCX. 
LYCASTE x IMSCHOOTIANA L. Linp. et con. 
M. A. VAN IMSCHOOT’S LYCASTE 
LYCASTE. Vide Lindenia, Engl. ed., vol. III, p. 13. 
Lycaste > Imschootiana, Pseudobulbis late triangulari-ovoideis, compressis, longitudinaliter obscure sulcatis ; 
foliis late lanceolatis, inferne longe attenuatis conduplicatis ; scapo teretiusculo, gracili, flexuoso, sparse paucivagi- 
nato; vaginis laxis, triangularibus, acutissimis; bractea ovato-lanceolata, acuta, ovario breviore; sepalis inferne erectis 
deinde patulis, subplanis margine leviter involutis, anguste ovatis, basi intus longiuscule denseque villosis caeteris 
glabris, dorsali obtuso vix apiculato, lateralibus paulo majoribus acutis subacuminatisque ; petalis erecto patulis, satis 
concavis, ovato-ellipticis, acutis, inferne intus pilosulis, caeteris glabris, sepalo dorsali paulo brevioribus, labello petalis 
satis, breviore, erecto, valde concavo, carnoso rigidoque, ambitu ovato, basi non unguiculato, lobis lateralibus 
apice late rotundatis, lobo terminali reflexo ovato apice rotundato margine crispo intus tenuissime denseque papilloso, 
disco ad basim extus profunde depresso intus gibboso ad medium intus sparse longeque piloso, callo inter lobis late- 
ralibus crasso apice rotundato; columna longiuscula, subrecta, antice longiuscule denseque villosa, basi in pedem 
brevem producta. 
Lycaste X Imschootiana L. Linp. et Coan. in Fourn, des Orchid., 4me année, p. 328, fig. 72 (1894); Journ, 
of Hortic., 21 déc. 1893, p. 549 et 557, fig. 80; Gard. Chron., 23 déc. 1893, p. 775; fig. 119; The Orchid Review, 
II, 'p. 8 et 30; Rev. de l’Hortic. Belg., XX, p. 47- 
he new hybrid we now figure is dedicated to M. Arrrep Van Imscnoor, 
of Ghent, who raised it in his collection by fertilizing the Lycaste 
Skinneri with the pollen of Maxillaria nigrescens. 
Its pseudobulbs are ovoid, rather enlarged at the base, obscurely keeled, 
greyish green with some silky reflections, 7 to 8 cm. thick. Considering the 
plant now under examination, each pseudobulb bears three light green, soft, 
plicate-nerved, rather wavy leaves, attaining 55 cm. in length and 14 cm. in 
breath. The scape, 12 to 15 cm. long, is of a pale green, slender, flexuose, 
cylindric; it bears usually two lax, membranaceous vaginae, brownish red, 
very acute, 2'/, cm. long, with the edges soldered below to half their height; 
a third bract-like vagina is split nearly to the base, and shorter than the 
ovary. The sepals erect towards the base, are then spreading, nearly plane, 
narrowly ovate, with rather long and dense hairs at the interior base, very pale 
yellow with very numerous large, dark purple dots; the dorsal one, obtuse and 
scarcely apiculate, is 5'/, cm. long and 3 cm. broad; the lateral ones, acute 
and somewhat acuminate, are 6 cm. long and 32 mm. broad. The petals are 
erect and somewhat spreading upwards, rather concave, ovate-elliptic, acute, 
somewhat villose in front towards their base, pale yellow, with large dots of a 
dark red rather rare at their upper half, but very numerous and nearly confluent 
at their basal half, 5 cm. long, 2'/, cm. broad. The lip is erect, very concave, 
rather fleshy and rigid, 4 cm. long, very dark purple, with small yellow spots in 
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