100 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
The Lycaste Deppei punctatissima, mentioned in the preceding para— 
graph, had just been described as a new variety (Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron.,. 
1881, xvi., p. 717), the author remarking :—‘‘ This is one of the recent 
Guatemalese introductions of Mr. B. S.-Williams, who kindly sent me two 
flowers. Sepals and petals whitish green, covered with innumerable purple 
spots. The lip is yellow, with radiating dark purple lines on the side 
laciniz and five similar blotches on the middle laciniz. It has all the 
features, colour excepted, of the Mexican Lycaste Deppei, even the most 
remarkable one of a strong keel running from the lobed flat callus down to: 
the base of the lip.” The idea of its being a natural hybrid does not appear 
to have suggested itself, but the plant has since been figured (Orch. Alb., vi., 
t. 262), and I am convinced that it originated by.the intercrossing of L. 
Deppeiand L. Skinneri, for it is unmistakably intermediate between them,. 
and the dense rosy spotting we now know to be characteristic of this 
hybrid. 
Curiously enough a hybrid ha@ already been raised artificially between 
these two species, though Reichenbach made no allusion to the fact, and, 
indeed, may have overlooked the record, which is 2s follows :-— 
Hyprip LycasTe.—We have hadflowers of a hybrid Lycaste placed in 
our hands by Mr. W. Marshall, whose name is familiar amongst Orchid 
growers. The plant was raised some nine or ten years since, between L. 
Skinneri and L. Deppei, and is, we believe, the second which has as yet 
been flowered. The three large sepals, of which the upper is erect and the 
lateral ones spreading, are of a creamy hue with a faint tinge of green, and. 
are thickly dotted with purple on the lower half. The two erect petals are 
large and of nearly the same colour as the sepals. The lip is yellow, densely 
spotted with erimson on the lower half, pure yellow on the recurved front 
lobe, and with a tongue-shaped orange fold lying on the disc, and projecting 
as far as the base of the front lobe, while the side lobes turn up to meet 
the column, the latter being about halfas long as the petals, yellow, intensely 
sanguineous at the base. The breadth of the flower across the expanded 
lateral sepals is five inches. It is a very interesting production, but is not 
regarded by its raiser as sufficiently attractive to be of any great value as 4 
cultivated Orchid.”—Gard. Chrom., 1878, x., p. 535. 
This plant was subsequently called Lycaste x hybrida (Veitch Man. 
Orch., ix., p. 97), and to it may be referred both L. Deppei punctatissima 
and the plant which has just flowered with M. FI. Claes, at Brussels. The 
latter has a flower rather over 4 inches across, with sepals over an inch 
broad, suffused with light rosy purple, and spotted near the base on a white 
ground. The petals have the spots more in lines and brighter in colour, 
while the lip is nearly white, blotched with purple-crimson on the front 
lobe, striped with crimson on the side lobes, thus showing characters 
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