SPATHOGLOTTIS. * 463 
flowers appear in September and October. Introduced in 
1845. Syn. Pachystoma Fortunet. 
Botanical Register, 1845, t. 19. 
S. Vieillardii—This is the largest and showiest of the 
species introduced. The handsome leaves are 2ft. long by 
2in. to 3in. broad, acuminate, and plaited. The scape 
springs from the base of the pseudo-bulb, and attains a 
height of 2ft. to 3ft. Several scores of flowers are 
produced on the spike, but not more than ten or a dozen 
are open simultaneously; the flowering season lasts for 
three months. The blooms are 2in. in diameter; the 
broad, ovate sepals and petals are white, or of a pale lilac, 
The lip is three-lobed; the side lobes are small, erect, 
orange-brown, with two large, orange-coloured  protuber- 
ances on the disk between them; the projecting front lobe 
is deep lilac, broadly obcordate, united to the body of the 
lip by a long, slender stalk. The plants now in cultiva- 
tion were imported from the Sunda Archipelago, where they 
were discovered in 1886. The species had previously been 
detected as far back as 1853, in the distant New Cale- 
donian Islands. It requires moist stove treatment when 
growing, with a decided period of rest afterwards. It 
flowers from September onwards. Syn. S. Augustorum. 
Botanical Magazine, t. 7013. 
