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effective on that golden background. Flowers with 

 the young growth in summer. Brazil. 1890. 5s. 



Sarcodes (flesh-like). Very useful and pleasing. 

 Flowers of good size ; sepals and petals chestnut, 

 blotched and tipped with yellow ; lip bright yellow, 

 with chestnut spots. I have seen it at St. Albaiis 

 with spikes eight feet long, profusely branched, 

 bearing many hundred flowers. March to May. 

 Brazil. 1849. 5s. It does better with the 

 Cattleyas. 



Serratum (saw-toothed round the edges). Very 

 striking. Chocolate, edged with yellow. The petals 

 curl over, forming a ring, as if for insects to light 

 upon. Like all the species with a very small lip, 

 as One. macranthum, it does not flower readily ; but, 

 like the rest of them, its very long spikes, thickly 

 set with bloom, reward our patience. November 

 to January. Peru. 1849. 10s. 6d. 



Sessile (stalkless). Another of the small-lipped 

 class. Large primrose flowers, speckled at the base 

 with cinnamon. April and May. Mexico. Does 

 better with the Cattleyas. 



Sphacelatum (scorched). A large, free-growing 

 species, yellow, splashed with chestnut. April and 

 May. Mexico. 3s. 6d. 



Spilopterum. Vide Saint-legerianum. 



Sprucei (Mr. Spruce, a traveller). Peculiar for its 



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