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THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 



Satyrium continued. 



S. cncullatnm (hooded). /. 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. I. twin, orbicular, 

 scabrous-ciliated ; sheaths inflated, distant, furfuraceous-ciliated. 

 h. 9in. 1786. (B. K. 416.) SYN. Orchis bicornia (A. B. R. 315). 

 S. erectum (erect). /. of a yellowish-orange or pale purple 

 colour ; sepals and petals scarcely longer than the galeate Up ; 

 spurs filiform ; bracts concave, reflexed, longer than the flowers ; 

 spike many-flowered. February. I. oblong, obtuse, coriaceous, 

 with cartilaginous margins, scabrous, much-spreading, changing 

 to convolute, imbricated sheaths. Stem lift, to 2ft. high, 

 wholly sheathed. 1838. (B. 117.) SYN. S. pustulatum (B. B. 

 1840, 18). 



S. foliosum (leafy), fl. pale purplish, small, erect ; lateral sepals 

 spreading, the middle one decurved ; petals obtuse, sub-erect; 

 galea hemispherical, longer than the filiform spurs ; bracts longer 

 than the flowers; spike dense, obtuse, imbricated. July. 

 I. oblong-lanceolate, erect, cucullate, imbricated, nearly as long 

 as the stem. Stem 1ft. to lift, high, leafy. 1828. 

 S. nepalense (Nepaul).* fl. rose-pink, fragrant ; lateral sepals 

 oblong, middle one and petals linear ; lip galeate, apiculate ; 

 spurs filiform; bracts reflexed, as long as the flowers; spike 

 oblong, loose, many-flowered. I, 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 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. 



SAUXDERSIA (named after W. W. Saunders, 1809- 

 1879, an ardent collector and cultivator of rare and 

 curious plants). OBD. Orchidece. A. monotypio genus. 

 The species is a stove, epiphytal orchid. For culture, 

 see Epidendmm. 



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. I. oblong, fleshy- 

 coriaceous. Stem very short, one-leaved, scarcely or not at all 

 pseudo-bulbous. Brazil (B. X. O. 177.) 

 SAURATJJA (from Sauraujo, the name of a Portu- 

 guese botanist known to Willdenow). SYNS. Blumia, 

 Marumia, Palava (of Euiz and Pavon), Reinwardtia 

 (of Blume). OBD. Ternstromiacece. 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. 



S. excelsa (tall), /white; peduncles long, covered with brown 

 hairs, trichotomously panicled at the apex. June. I oblong- 

 obovate, rather acute, quite entire, scabrous above, hairy beneath 

 at the veins, h. 10ft. Caraccas, 1820. 



S. nepaulensis (Nepaul). fl. white; racemes many-flowered, 

 panicled, on long peduncles. August. I. lanceolate, 9in. long 

 2in. to 3in. wide, acuminate, serrate, smooth above beneath 

 (as well as the branchlets) covered with brown down. h. 6ft. 



(as well 

 Nepaul, 



Saurauj a continued. 



S. spectabills (remarkable), fl. white, in ample, much-branched 

 panicles ; petals obcordate, twice exceeding the calyx. June. 

 I. obovate-lanceolate, shortly acuminate, connate at base, petio- 

 late, doubly serrate, naked in the axils of the veins. Branches, 

 peduncles, calyces, and nerves of leaves, adpressedly ferruginous- 

 bristly. A. 10ft. Brazil, 1842. (B. M. 3982.) 



SAUROGLOSSUM. Included under Spirantlies 

 (which see). 



SAUROMATUM (from saura, a lizard ; alluding to 

 the speckled interior of the spathe). OBD. Aroidea 

 (AracecB). |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, 

 appendicolate spadix, f 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), fl., spathe tube green outside, oblong, 

 the lamina olive outside and yellowish-preen within, with 

 rather large, irregular, dark purple spots ; spadix terete- 

 conical ; peduncle short. May. I., segments oblong or oblong- 

 lanceolate, acuminate ; petioles unspotted, h. IJft. Himalayas, 

 1830. (B. B. 1017, under name of Arum venosum.) 



S. pedatnm (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. 

 March. 1. pedatisect ; segments seven, nine, or eleven, obovate- 

 oblong, acute, very shortly or scarcely acuminate, obtuse at base ; 

 petioles long. h. 3ft. East Indies, 1815. (B. G. 495.) 



S. punctatum (dotted). /., spathe green, marked with brown 

 spots ; peduncle short. I. trifoliolate ; middle leaflet solitary, 

 elliptic, long-acuminate ; lateral ones pedately seven-parted, the 

 outer segments smaller, h. 1ft 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. I., segments oblong, cuneate 

 towards the base, acuminate at apex, the midrib and lateral 

 nerves yellowish; petioles spotted, h. 1ft 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 ports, a 

 foot ; Blume, the originator of the genus, does not say 

 why it is so named). SY.N. Ceratogynum. OBD. Euphor- 

 biacece. 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) I. 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. 



SAURTJRE2E. A tribe of Piperacecn. 



SAURURUS (from sauros, a lizard, and oura, a tail ; 

 alluding to the form of the inflorescence). Lizard's Tail. 

 SYNS. Anonymo, HattuscJiTcia, Spathium. TBIBE Sau- 

 rurece of OBD. Piperaceae. A small genus (two species) 

 of hardy, aquatic, perennial herbs ; one is a native of 

 Eastern Asia, and the other North American. Flowers 

 small, numerous, in a terminal raceme, each with a 

 small bract ; perianth wanting ; stamens six or eight, or 

 fewer by abortion. Fruit sub-globose. Leaves alter- 

 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 6in. long, nodding at the end ; bracts 



