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above named. We should like to know if the present plant shows any such 
character at a future time of flowering. We have been asked on two or 
three occasions what can be the cause of this peculiarity, and whether it 
is likely to prove permanent. As to the former point we cannot offer any 
suggestion. We have been told that the plants were collected off some 
cultivated orange trees, where presumably the seeds may have been sown, 
though we do not see how the deformity can be attributed to the trees on 
which the plants grew. The peculiarity seems to be constitutional, and 
we fear will not be eliminated by cultivation. We would suggest that 
possibly the seeds may have been produced by a plant in abnormal condi- 
tion, and the peculiarity may have been reproduced in the offspring 
generally. We should be glad if anyone can suggest any other explanation, 
or give any further particulars of the importation in question, as it would 
be interesting to know more of its history. 
LYCOMORIUM SQUALIDUM. 
This extremely rare Orchid has again appeared in cultivation, in the 
collection of G. Marshall, Esq., Claremont House, Grimsby, and a raceme 
was exhibited at the Royal Horticultural Society’s meeting on July 9th 
last. It was originally discovered by Péppig in 1829, at Pampayaco, in 
Peru, and was described and figured as Anguloa squalida (Popp. et Endl. 
Nov. Gen et Sp., i., p. 43, t- 74). In 1852 Reichenbach established for it a 
new genus under the above name (Bot. Zeit., x., p- 833); and afterwards 
figured it (Xen. Orch., i., p. 181, t. 64). Warscewicz afterwards collected it 
at the sources of the Marafon River, in Peru, and his specimens were 
named by Lindley Peristeria fuscata, and sold as such at Steven’s Rooms, 
but on flowering they proved identical with the preceding. Its history is 
thus given by Lindley :—“‘ It is in the rich collection of the Lord Bishop of 
Winchester that this fine plant has at last flowered. Plants of it were sold 
by Stevens in May, 1853, along with others from M. Warscewicz, and 
thence transferred to the care of Mr. Lawrence at Farnham Castle, who 
exhibited the specimen before us, at the late exhibition of the Royal Botanic 
Society in the Regent’s Park. The judges there, not seeming to know any- 
thing about. the species, gave it a small Silver Medal, although it is certainly 
the best novelty of the present season, in either a botanical or horticultural 
point of view” (Gard. Chron., 1856, p. 388). The plant has the general 
habit of a Peristeria or Acineta, with pendulous racemes of six to twelve, or 
according to Warscewicz’s Sale Catalogue, as many as twenty, fleshy 
flowers, with a powerful aromatic fragrance. They are dull purple-brown 
outside, and spotted with purple-crimson inside. The lip has a saccate base, 
two large oblong side lobes directed backwards towards the column, and a 
small fleshy almost callus-like front lobe. The anther has a curious 
