136. THE ORCHID REVIEW. 
variety, X C. Boxallii atratum, and a few little plants were visible in their 
first leaf. Since then about thirty more have appeared, some only recently, 
but the number now left is only fourteen, more or less thriving. 
(To be continued.) 
LYCASTE LOCUSTA. 
THE re-appearance of some long-lost species is always interesting, and the 
above curious species has scarcely been heard of since it was described in 
Reichenbach’s quaint phraseology nearly twenty years ago. He described 
it as “a Lycaste allied to L. costata and L. Barringtoniz, with a white 
column, green sepals, green petals, a green lip, a green callus, a green 
ovary, green bract, green sheaths, a green peduncle, green bulbs, green 
leaves—just as green as a green grasshopper, or the dress of some Viennese 
ladies. It is nearly as satisfactory to study this group as it is to brush 
hedgehogs, but this. species is better than the sister species; it is very 
well distinguishable by its very fleshy, short perigones, very short blunt 
‘mentum, convex disc of the anterior lacinia of the lip, and the two most 
‘sharp keels running between the side laciniz. Flowers smaller and shorter 
‘than those of L. Deppei, the petals bent down inside the lateral sepals, 
thus making the perigone fully bilabiate. It was brought from Peru by 
Mr. Davis, and: Messrs. Veitch have. the satisfaction of flowering this 
novelty, which might create a surprising effect.when brought before the 
court of the judges of the Royal Horticultural Society’s Floral Committee, 
claiming a Certificate. If Mr. Seden would cross it with a pure white 
Lycaste Skinneri we might get a flower with a good Saxon flag, white 
striped with green, if things develop as we would have them.” (Rchb. f. in 
Gard. Chron., 1879, xi., p. 524.) A Peruvian species, which has just 
flowered with Mr. F. W. Moore at Glasnevin, obtained, I believe, from 
Messrs. F. Sander & Co., answers so well to this description that I do not 
hesitate to identify it with the original. The only difference which I can 
see is that the flower is larger than in L. Deppei instead of smaller, the 
sepals being 2} inches long. The colour is a dull olive green, of a slightly 
glaucous shade, and the fringe of the lip much paler. As colour is not 
the only desideratum at Glasnevin, I hope the species will not be so 
quickly lost sight of on this occasion. 
It may be added that one of the most obvious characters of the group is 
the more or less distinctly fringed lip, and that about a dozen species have 
been described, though a few are still imperfectly known or have been 
somewhat confused together. L. cinnabarina is one of the most striking 
species, on account of the contrast afforded by the orange-brown lip with 
. the greenish white or a Hoey shite = and a At present it is 
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