THE ORCHID REVIEW. 113 
LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA. 
ApouT thirty years ago a writer in the Gardeners’ Chronicle, remarked that 
Lycaste Skinneri seemed about to have as great a future as the tulip. If 
the prophecy has not been fulfilled to the letter, we can at least say that 
in the majority of collections it is highly valued as a winter-flowering 
decorative plant. Some there are who regard it with little favour, while 
others, and especially those who understand its requirements, grow it in 
considerable numbers. 
The species is a native of Guatemala, and was originally discovered 
by Mr. Skinner, probably in 1839, as it was first described in the following 
Fig. 8. LYCASTE SKINNERI ALBA. 
year, under the name of Maxillaria Skinneri. The collector sent home 
living plants, which flowered early in 1842, when a 
in the Botanical Register by Dr. Lindley. Soon after 
Skinner it was met with by M. J. Linden, who also sent hom 
plants. : 
ficure was published 
its discovery by Mr. 
living 
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It varies in colour from deep rose to white with a taint stain of y 
sty the lip, and about a dozen varieties have received distin 
Che Variety alba, of which we here give an illus tration, appeared among 
the first importations, and has ever since been regarded as & chante bs 
Very beautiful form. In every other respect but that of colour it resembles 
the typical form. The photograph here reproduced was kin 
- W. Nixon, Esq., of Leek, Staffordshire, 
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