This long awaited successor to Lycaste Species. The Essential Guide (1993), contains descriptions and photographs with bibliographical, geographical, habitat, cultural and historical information of all the Lycastes (31 species, 14 natural hybrids and 34 varieties), Idas (39 species, four natural hybrids and eleven varieties) and Anguloas (nine species, four natural hybrids and five varieties) known to the author. Many are described for the first time in this book.