472 | JORCHIDS, 
‘flowered. Flower 7in. across; sepals 34in. long and 2}in. 
broad, wide-spreading, pale yellow or nankeen-coloured, 
with numerous ring-shaped blotches and spots of rose- 
purple; petals narrower and shorter, but coloured the same 
as the sepals; basal part or hypochil of the lip boat- 
shaped, 2tin. long, 1in. deep, and nearly tin. across; the 
horns tin. long, broad, and pointing forwards parallel with 
the tongue-shaped front lobe; the colour of the boat-shaped 
portion deep purplish crimson inside, paler outside, with 
spots of a deeper colour; the horns and front lobe coloured 
like the sepals; column 3in. long, winged near the top, 
greenish, with red spots. It is difficult to convey any idea 
of the extraordinary form and rich colouring of the flowers 
of this species. Sometimes the scape is_ two-flowered. 
Introduced from New Granada by Messrs. Low and Co., 
and first flowered by Mr. Day in 1868. 
Garden, t. 652. 
S. tigrina.—This is one of the most striking of all 
Orchids; its huge, strangely-formed blossoms, the thick, 
waxy consistence of the lip and column, the singular colours 
of the flowers, and the powerful fragrance they exhale, 
being a combination of characters of a very extraordinary 
‘nature. The pseudo-bulbs and leaves are dark green, 
the latter being broad and about gin. long. The pendu- 
lous scape is clothed with large, boat-shaped, thin, brown 
bracts, which remain after the flowers have opened. The 
waxy, fragrant flowers are fully 6in. across. The sepals are 
almost as broad as long, concave; and the petals are much 
narrower and wavy—the colour of both being dingy yellow, 
with large blotches of dull purple, sometimes a single 
irregular blotch extending over two-thirds of the entire 
sepal. The cavity of the lip is broad and short ; the horns 
are about rin. in length, and are suddenly bent forward 
