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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
_ Satyrium—continued. 
S. cucullatum (hooded). fl. green, with an unpleasant odour; 
intermediate sepal longer than the petals, linear, obtuse, lateral 
ones larger, all connate at base ; lip acute, fleshy ; spurs pendu- 
lous; bracts concave, reflexed. June. Jl. twin, orbicular, 
scabrous-ciliated ; sheaths inflated, distant, furfuraceous-ciliated. 
h. Qin. 1786. (B. R. 416.) Syn. Orchis bicornis (A. B. R. 315). 
S. erectum (erect). fl. of a yellowish-orange or pale purple 
colour; sepals and petals scarcely longer than the galeate lip; 
spurs filiform ; bracts concave, reflexed, longer than the flowers; 
spike many-flowered. February. l. oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 
with cartilaginous margins, scabrous, much-spreading, changing 
to convolute, imbricated sheaths. Stem lft. to 2ft. high, 
wholly sheathed. 1838. (B. 117.) SYN. S. pustulatum (B. R. 
, 18). 
S. foliosum (leafy). fl. pale purplish, small, erect; lateral sepals 
spreading, the ie —* decurved; petals obtuse, sub-erect ; 
galea hemispherical, — than the filiform spurs; bracts longer 
than the tlowers; spike dense, obtuse, imbricated. July. 
l. oblong-lanceolate, erect, cucullate, imbricated, nearly as long 
as the stem. Stem lft. to lft. high, leafy. 1828. 
S. nepalense (Nepaul).* f. rose-pink, fragrant;,lateral sepals 
oblong, onal one and petals linear; lip galeate, apiculate ; 
spurs filiform; bracts refiexed, as long as the flowers; spike 
oblong, loose, many-flowered. l., radical ones ovate or lanceo- 
late, erect; cauline ones shorter, spreading, sheathing at base. 
h. 1ft. or more. East Indies, 1882. (B. M. 6625.) 
S. pustulatum (pustular). A synonym of S. erectum. 
SAUCERS. Occasionally, these are useful for stand- 
ing plants in, while they are in rooms or in places where 
water cannot readily be applied. Generally, plants are 
soon injured by standing in Saucers of water, as the 
soil becomes sour; but those which naturally require 
plenty of moisture, or grow in water, may be so 
treated with safety. Saucers are made to suit all the 
smaller sizes of flower-pots, and may be procured, in most 
instances. from the same pottery. For preserving a 
tender plant against the attack of slugs, &c., it is some- 
times an effectual plan to place an inverted pot in the 
middle of a Saucer of water, and stand the plant on the 
top of it. Glazed Saucers may be recommended for 
rooms, as they do not allow moisture to pass through 
and injure anything on which they may be stood. 
SAUNDERSIA (named after W. W. Saunders, 1809- 
1879, an ardent collector and cultivator of rare and 
curious plants). ORD. Orchidee. A monotypic genus. 
The species is a stove, epiphytal orchid. For culture, 
see Epidendrum. 25 
S. mirabilis (wonderful). fl. greenish-white, flushed with yellow 
and purple, medium-sized; sepals and petals free above, sub-equal, 
spreading, ovate ; lip shortly connate with the column towards 
the base, the claw exceeding the sepals, the blade bilobed ; 
column short; pollen masses two; scape short, recurved, sub- 
fasciculately many-flowered ; bracts ovate. ł oblong, fieshy- 
coriaceous. Stem very short, one-leaved, scarcely or not at all 
pseudo-bulbous, Brazil. (R. X. O. 177.) 
SAURAUJA (from Sawraujo, the name of a Portu- 
guese botanist known to Willdenow). Syns. Blumia, 
Marumia, Palava (of Ruiz and Pavon), Reinwardtia 
(of Blume). ORD. Ternstrimiacew. A genus comprising 
about sixty species of mostly stove trees or shrubs, 
usually strigose-pilose or hairy, inhabiting Asia or tropi- 
cal and sub-tropical America. Flowers usually herm- 
aphrodite; sepals five, closely imbricated; petals five, 
imbricated, connate or rarely nearly free at base; 
: Stamens, numerous, adhering to the base of the corolla; 
“peduncles axillary or lateral, many-flowered, sub-panicu- 
late, or rarely shortened and few-flowered. Leaves 
usually serrated. The under-mentioned species merit 
culture on account of their fine flowers and leaves. 
All are stove shrubs, thriving in a compost of loam 
and peat. Propagated by ripened cuttings, inserted in 
sand, under a glass, in heat. z 
S. excelsa (tall). Jl. white ; — long, covered with brown 
hairs, trichotomously panicled at the apex. June. J. oblong- 
obovate, rather acute, quite entire, scabrous above, hairy beneath 
at the veins. h. 10ft. Caraccas, 1820. a 
S. nepaulensis (Nepaul). f. white; racemes many-flowered, 
— on long peduncles. August. l. lanceolate, 9in. long, 
n. to 3in. wide, acuminate, serrate, smooth above, beneath 
(as well as the branchlets) 
covered with b: — 
Nepaul, 1824. rown gown. 6ft 
Saurauja—continued. 
S. spectabilis (remarkable). M. white, in ample, much-branched 
anicles; petals obcordate, twice exceeding the calyx. June, 
. obovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, connate at base, petio- 
late, doubly serrate, naked in the axils of the veins, Branches, 
duncles, calyces, and nerves of leaves, adpressedly ferruginous- 
ristly. A. ł0ft. Brazil, 1842. (B. M. 3982.) ; 
SAUROGLOSSUM. Included under Spiranthes 
(which see). 
SAUROMATUM (from saura, a lizard; alluding to 
the speekled interior of the spathe). ORD. Aroidee 
(Aracew). A genus consisting of about half-a-dozen 
species of stove, tuberous-rooted, herbaceous perennials, 
natives of tropical Asia and Africa. Flowers on a long, 
appendiculate spadix, shorter than the spathe, males and 
females remote; spathe marcescent, at length vanish- 
ing, the tube ventricose, the margins more or less con- 
nate, the throat opening, the lamina lanceolate, elon- 
gated. Leaves solitary, pedately parted; petioles elon- 
gated, terete. ‘The introduced species are here described. 
They thrive in a compost of light loam and peat, in 
equal proportions. Propagated by offsets. 
S. guttatum (spotted). Jl., spathe tube green outside, oblong, 
the lamina olive outside and yellowish-green within, wit 
rather large, irregular, dark purple spots; spadix terete- 
conical; peduncle short, May. l., segments oblong or oblong- 
lanceolate, acuminate ; petiol tted. h,1}ft. Himalayas, 
1830. (B. R. 1017, under name of Arum venosum.) 
S. pedatum (pedate-leaved). fl., spathe tube dark purple within, 
loosely constricted above the middle, the lamina narrow-elon- 
gated yellowish, with very dense, confluent, purple spots. 
arch. l. pedatisect ; segments seven, nine, or eleven, obovate- 
oblong, acute, very shortly or scarcely acuminate, obtuse at base ; 
petioles long. h. 3ft. East Indies, 1815. (R. G. 495.) - 
S. punctatum (dotted). fl., spathe green, marked with brown 
spots; peduncle short. J. trifoliolate ; middle leaflet solitary, 
elliptic, long-acuminate ; lateral ones pedately seven-parted, the 
outer segments smaller. k. lft. Himalaya (?), 1858. 
S. venosum (veined).* fl., spathe purplish outside, the tube 
oblong, the lamina yellowish within, with crowded, small, 
oblong, purple spots; spadix appendix very long, cylindrical ; 
peduncle very short, violet-spotted. Z., segments oblong, cuneate 
towards the base, acuminate at apex, the midrib and lateral 
nerves yellowish; petioles — h. lit. East Indies, 1848. 
(B. M. 4465; F. d. S. 1334; L. J. F. 12, under name of 
S. guttatum.) 
SAUROPUS (from sauros, a lizard, and pous, a 
foot; Blume, the originator of the genus, does not say 
why it is so named), Syn. Ceratogynum. ORD. Euphor- 
biaceew. A genus comprising about fourteen species of 
stove shrubs, with the habit of Phyllanthus, natives of 
the East Indies, the Malayan Archipelago (and New 
Caledonia °). Flowers fascicled in the axils, all pedi- 
cellate, the males minute, the females in the same or 
in a distinct axil, solitary or rarely two. Leaves alter- 
nate, distichous, membranous, entire. For culture of 
S. albicans Gardnerianus, the only species introduced, — 
see Phyllanthus. : = 
S. albicans Gardnerianus (whitish, Gardner's) J. oblong- 
ovate, scarcely rounded-obtuse or sub-obtuse at base, acute and 
acuminate at apex, small, deep green, with a greyish central 
blotch. Branches and branchlets slender, green, the latter 
angular. Ceylon, 1861. 
SAURUREZ. A tribe of Piperacee. 
SAURURWUS (from sauros, a lizard, and oura, a tail; 
alluding to the form of the inflorescence). Lizard’s Tail. 
Syns. Anonymo, Mattuschkia, Spathium. TRIBE Sau- 
ruree of ORD. Piperacew. A small genus (two species) 
of hardy, aquatic, perennial herbs; one isa native of — 
Eastern Asia, and the other North American. Flowers 
small, numerous, in a terminal raceme; each with n 
small bract; perianth wanting; stamens six or eight, or 
fewer by abortion. Fruit sub-globose. Leaves aler- 
nate, broad, cordate; stipules membranous, adnate to 
the petioles. The plants should be grown in sandy 
loam, in a pond or cistern. They may be increased 
by- seeds, or by divisions. 
S. cernuus (drooping). 
American Swamp Lily. fl. white, in 
a dense spike, 4in. to 6i —— 
bin. long, nodding at the end; bracts 
