KODRIGUEZIA — SACCOLABIUM. 



5G1 



EODRIGUEZIA, Ruiz and Pavoii. 



{Tribe Vandese, suhtribe Oncidieee.) 



This is a small group of Brazilian and Central American 

 epiphytes, with which some authorities associate the Bur- 

 lingtonias, another small group of interesting species already 

 noticed at p. 157. The small flowers have the sepals and petals 

 erect and subeqaal, the lip is clawed and entire, with a spur 

 or gibbosity at the base, and the column is terete, bearded at 

 the apex. The species are not generally very attractive, but 

 that here described is well worth growing. 



Culture. — This plant succeeds well on a block suspended 

 from the roof, and should be grown in the Cattleya house. 



R. secunda, Humb. Bonpl. and Kunth. — A neat and pretty 

 epiphyte, with oval compressed pseudobulbs having a ridge 

 on each face, and producing several linear-oblong coriaceous 

 obliquely emarginate leaves, and axillary recurved scapes six 

 to nine inches long, bearing numerous small flowers, which 

 all turn to one side of the spike, and are of a pretty deep rose 

 colour, sparkling as if frosted. It blooms in October, and 

 through the autumn and winter months. — New Grenada; 

 Trinidad. 



YlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 3524 ; Bot. Reg., t. 930 ; Lodd., Bot. Cab., t. 676 ; 

 Humb. Bonpl. and Kunih, Nov. Gen. et Sp. PI, i. t. 92 ; Uook., Exot. FL, t. 

 129. 



Stn, — Rodriguezia lanceolata ; Pleurothallis coccinea. 



SACCOLABIUM, Blime. 

 ( Tribe Vandese, subtribe Sarcantheffl.) 



This genus contains some of the finest Orchids in cultiva- 

 tion. They are evergreen plants, very compact in their 

 growth, the stems furnished with long thick leathery or fleshy 

 distichous pendent leaves, from the axils of which the flowers 

 are produced, in long graceful simple or branched recurved 



