DESCRIPTIVE LIST. 38$ 



white flowers, spotted with mauve and rose ; lip dark 

 mauve. This species is delightfully fragrant, and lasts 

 in beauty two or three months. We grow it in a basket, 

 as thus the drooping spikes show to better advantage. It 

 is one of the most beautiful of Orchids. 



Saccolabium Wightianum. SYN. of Aerides Wightii. 



These plants should be grown like Aerides, either on 

 blocks or in pots or baskets. They demand the same 

 general treatment ; are propagated in the same way. The 

 foliage is very ornamental. All the species are worth 

 growing, and a collection can hardly have too many Sac* 

 colabiums. 



Sarcanthus. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Name from <rop, flesh, and &v8o$, flower. 

 Sarcanthus ermaceus. Moulmein . . Bat. 2d Cen., 193. 



B. M., 5630. 



A very pretty little species, with pink and white flow- 

 ers ; lip with purple markings. The flowers are freely 

 produced, on drooping spikes, but the plant is very slow- 

 growing, and does not bloom well until of some size. 



C. Sarcanthus paniculatus. China . . . B. R., 220. 

 SYNS. Aerides paniculatum. 



Vanda paniculata. 



Flowers yellow, with two blood-red rays along the centre 

 of the petals and sepals ; lip yellow. 



C. Sarcanthus rostratus. China . . . . B. R., 981. 



SYN. Vanda recurva (Hooker). 

 Perianth orange, edged with blood-red ; lip violet 

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