564 oechid-geower's manual. 



S. Blumei, Lindley. — A beautiful distinct species, with a 

 sliort erect densely leafy stem, long arcuate distichous lorate 

 persistent channelled leaves, unequally truncate at the ends, 

 bright green with a few parallel lines of dark green, extending 

 from base to apex, on the under side. The flowers grow in 

 dense pendulous cylindrical axillary racemes, the ovate sepals 

 and oblong petals white tinted with rose and dotted with 

 magenta, and the lip with a compressed bluntish spur, and a 

 roundish oblong laminte, ciliated recurved and emarginate at 

 the tip, of a soft magenta rose. These flowers are produced 

 in July and August, and last three weeks in perfection, — 

 India : Java. 



YlG.—Sertum Orch., t. 47 ; Wiqhf. Icon. PI. Ind., t. 1745 (guttatum— 

 f. Rchb.) Orchid Album, iv. t. 169; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 37 ; Gard. Chron., 

 N.S., xxiii. 573, fig. 105. 



Stn. — Saccolabium Rheedii; Rhynchostylis retusa pramorsa; Aerides 

 pramorsum. 



S. Blumei majUS, Echb. f. — A charming variety of S. 

 Blumei, in which the colours of the flowers are much the 

 same as in the preceding plant, but the whole plant is of much 

 stronger growth, and the flowers and flower spikes are much 

 larger ; the leaves are longitudinally banded with streaks of 

 light and dark green on both surfaces. — Moulmein. 

 Fig.— Pescatorea, t. 21 ; Illust. HorL, t. 545. 



S. Blumei Eusselianum, Williams. — This is the very finest 

 form of the S. Blumei section we have ever seen. The spike 

 of flowers is very long and massive, the blossoms are large, 

 densely packed, and beautifully spotted. It bloomed in the 

 collection of the late J. Eussel, Esq., of Falkirk, under the 

 skilful management of Mr. Sorley. We recently saw a well- 

 flowered specimen of this variety in the collection of R. H. 

 Measures, Esq., Streatham, with spikes twenty-four inches 

 long. The flowers are produced in September. — Java. 



S. CCeleste, Rchb.f. — The habit of this new species is similar 

 to that of S. curvifolium, with the inflorescence short, three to 

 four inches long, and densely flowered. The blunt cuneate 

 oblong sepals and petals are tipped with sky-blue, the com- 

 pressed blunt recurved spur has a blue tint on both sides 

 of its centre, and the rhombic anterior part of the lip is also 

 sky-blue ; while two falcate subulate bodies rise from the 

 apex inside the spur. Flowered by Sir Trevor Lawrence, 

 Bart., M.P. — Native Country not stated, j)rQhahly Moulmein. 



Stn. — Rhynchostylis ccelesfis. 



