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it is similar to the Burmese variety. It flowers during the 

 winter months. — Cochin China. 

 Fig.— nimt. Hort., 3 ser., t. 517. 



S. guttatum, Lindley. — A remarkably handsome species, 

 which, according to Reichenbach, forms one of many varieties 

 included by him under the name of Rhynchostylis retusa. 

 The stems are short, furnished with distichous arcuate 

 leathery channelled leaves, a foot long, unequally truncate 

 at the end, and of a dark green colour. The floral 

 racemes are cylindi-aceous and arcuate, as long as the leaves. 

 It blossoms from May to August, and remains three or four 

 weeks in perfection, if removed to a cooler house, and kept 

 free from damp. The flowers are closely set, so as to form 

 massive wreaths of blossoms ; the sepals and petals are 

 ovate ; the petals narrower, waxy white, spotted with deep 

 rosy purple ; the lip is small, its front lobe lanceolate inflexed, 

 wholly purple, its spur truncately conical compressed, pubes- 

 cent inside. There are two or three varieties of this species, 

 which makes one of the finest of all plants for exhibition. 

 Some remarkable specimens of it were shown in the year 

 1850, with from twenty to twenty-five spikes of flowers on 

 each. — India ; Java. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 4108 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1443 ; Puydt, Les Orch., 227, fig. 

 230 ; Be Vriese, JllusL, t. 14 ; Gard. Chron., 1845, 364, with fig. ; Id., N.S., 

 i. 219, fig. 55 (specimen plant) ; Hart. Parad., ii. t. 3 ; Blume, Tabell., 49. 



Syn. — Aerides guttatum ; A. retusum; Epidendrum retusum ; Limodorum 

 reiusum; Sarcanthus guttatm ; Rhynchostylis retusa guttata ; R. guttata, 



S. guttatum giganteum, Hort. — A magnificent variety of 

 S. guttatum, having the leaves longer and spotted ; the 

 racemes are also much longer, and the flowers more distinct 

 in the markings. It makes a superb exhibition plant, as it 

 blooms in June and July, and will last three or four weeks in 

 perfection. — India. 



S, guttatum Holfordianum, Williams. — This splendid 

 variety is one of the finest yet obtained. The leaves are 

 broader than those of the ordinary form of S. guttatum, and 

 more prsemorse at the ends ; the flower spikes are also much 

 larger and longer, and the flowers of a richer colour than in 

 those of the kind just named, the lip in the present form 

 being a rich crimson. This was bloomed first by R, S. 

 Holford, Esq., Weston Birt, Gloucestershire,! in compliment 

 to whom it is named. — India. 

 FiQ.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI., ii. 1. 18. 



