114 THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
Lycaste Skinneri is a plant of very easy culture, and may be propagated 
by division after flowering. They should be grown in peat, in well-drained 
pots, and grown at the warmest end of the house, or in an intermediate 
house, and during the growing season should be liberally supplied with 
water. Even when at rest the compost should not be allowed to become 
dry. It is very floriferous, and large, well-grown plants will produce as 
many as fifty flowers, producing a handsome effect. 
Another merit possessed by this plant is that when in flower it may 
be removed to an ordinary sitting-room, where it will remain in perfection 
for a considerable time without any injury to the plant. 
Lycaste Skinneri alba, Hort., Pescatorea, t. 39 (right-hand figure) ; 77. Mag., n. s., 1872, 
t. 35, fig. 1; Lzndenia, iv., p. 21, t. 153; Orchid Album, v., t. 234. 
CYPRIPEDIUM x LEDA. 
This pretty hybrid Cypripedium was raised in the collection of John C. 
Bowring, Esq., Forest Farm, Windsor, from C. x Harrisianum 2 and C. 
venustum g, and was described about a year ago, on the occasion of its 
flowering for the first time. A flower just received from Mr. Bowring shows 
that it has improved as the plant has become stronger. The dorsal sepal, 
lip, and staminode are almost reproductions of these organs in the pollen 
parent, except that the lip is rather browner in front and less veined. The 
petals, on the other hand, have much of the character of C. villosum, both 
in shape and colour. They are two inches long by half as broad near. the 
apex. The influence of C. x Harrisianum is chiefly seen in some dark 
brown, more'or less dotted, lines at the base of the petals. The parentage 
may be expressed thus :—C. venustum, }; C. villosum, 4; C- barbatum, 43 
though the latter might be absent altogether, so little is it in evidence. We 
have not seen the leaf. 
Cypripedium x Leda, Gard. Chron., 1892, i. p. 202. 
TRICHOPILIA PUNCTATA. 
This interesting little Costa Rican species has again flowered with aires : 
F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans. It has the sepals and petals studded oe 
numerous reddish-purple spots on a light green ground, in which respect ! 
differs from every other species in the genus. In other respects it is neatly 
allied to T. laxa. 
Trichopilia punctata, Rolfe in Gard. Chron, 1889, i. p. 22 
