Plate XIII, 



SCHOMBURGKIA MARGINATA. 



Schomburgkia marginal*., Supra plate 10. in the text. 



When Schomburgkia crisps was published a few months shin* in this work, mention was made of 

 a second specie* of tin goons, of which I had received specimens from Mr, Schombnrgk, I have 

 since been so fortunate a* to find a beautiful coloured drawing of this curious epiphyte, amon*; it 

 valuably collection of figure* of Surinam plants, mode by direction of my friend John Henry Lance, 

 lisij.. during In* residence in ihnl colony. From these material* 1 have been allowed 10 prepare the 

 accompanying figure, corrected from specimens in my herbarium ; ami J think it will bear out tin* 

 utatemenl formerly made, that the two ipecieS of Scliombnrykin Kn * among the most beautiful 

 Orclitdnccn* i>f ironical America. 



Mr- Lance ha* favoured me with the following memoranda concerning this plant. 



" This epiphyte grow* abundantly near the town of Paramaribo in Surinam, in an avenue 

 of very tine tree* of a specie* of Erythriiui. That tree ho* a very rough bark, and appear* 

 particularly favourable for the growth of nil sorts of epiphytical plants the Imnk and branches being 

 frequently covered with them. It rise* from (JO to 80 feet high* and is known by the name of the 

 Coffee Mamma, from being planted UttODg the coffee for the purpose* of shade and shelter. 



11 Tlii* epiphyte is generally found *prjiigin<r from ihe tir*t or second fork of the tree, though 

 now and then it is somewhat higher. I do not recollect finding it in any other pari of the colony, 

 •ir growing upon any other species of tree. 



" I cultivated it in my garden, and it grew very tolerably on an old Mammen amerieanu ; but, 

 like many others of the same class, would not flower in n pot filled with dead wood and mould; 

 whence I conclude that in thi*> country it will require a living IfCO to support it, though 1 have more 

 than once seen it growing vigorously on a very large branch which hail been blown down and 

 become rotten. 



•■ The Howcr*stn1k begins to appear about January or February, and is frequently four feet high, 

 mid when ihe whole of the flower* at it* summit are blown, it i* (he largest and most singular 

 looking of tlie Orchidaccro that I observed in Surinam. 



11 It seems to prefer a situation moderately shady, though tit the dry season it i* capable of 

 standing a very intense heat* as the specie* of Erytlirina on which it grows loses nearly the whole of 

 it-* leave* at that time," 



Many living plants of this specie* were brought to England In- Mr. Lance upon hi* return 

 from Surinam; bat although they were given to the most skilful cultivator* of Oreliidaccrc, 

 they all died. In general appearance they were very like what is called the " Spread Eagle Plant," 

 of which live specimens now exist in many collections, and it i* not improbable ihnt that plant, 

 of whose flowers nothing i* known, may be a species of Schomburgkia. 



