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forms, blooms in May and June, and produces in great 

 abundance long racemes of flowers, which are waxy white, 

 beautifully spotted with pink. These continue in perfection 

 three or four weeks. It is a useful plant, and one which 

 comes into bloom rather earlier than any of the other kinds. 

 — Java. 

 Fig.— Flore des Serres, tt. 1463—4. 



S. Turneri, Williams. — This is the finest Saccolabiiun 

 which has come under our notice. The leaves are about a 

 foot long, and one and a half inch broad, the end of the leaf 

 having a distinct praemorse termination. The floral racemes 

 are fully two feet long, and are densely covered with its 

 beautiful lilac-spotted flowers. It is much handsomer than the 

 varieties of S. guttatum, and was first flowered by W. Turner, 

 Esq., of Winsford, and exhibited by him under the name of 

 S. prcBinorsuni, but it is far superior to that species, both in 

 the brilliant colouring of its flowers and the great length of 

 its spikes. The original plant was exhibited at the Man- 

 chester Show in June, 1878, and bore four spikes, each two 

 feet in length, of its handsome blossoms ; it was then awarded 

 the first prize as a specimen Orchid, and was the admiration 

 of every one who saw it. It flowers in June. — India. 



S. Tiolaceuni, Lindley. — This magnificent species is one of 

 those referred by some authors to the genus lihynchosUjlis of 

 Blume. The stems are erect, stoutish, thickly clothed with 

 the recurved distichous foliage ; the leaves are a foot or more 

 in length, and two inches in breadth, of a rich deep green, 

 somewhat striated with lines of a deeper colour ; and from 

 the leaf-axils are produced the showy racemes, twelve to 

 fifteen inches in length, in which the flowers are very 

 numerous, the sepals and petals pure white, spotted with 

 mauve, and the lip dark mauve, marked with deeper coloured 

 lines. It generally blooms in January and February, and 

 lasts four or five weeks in perfection if kept from the damp. 

 The plant succeeds in a pot well drained, and surfaced with 

 a little growing sphagnum moss. — Manilla. 



¥iQ.— Warner, Sel. Orch. PI, i. t. 14; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 39 (poor). 

 SVN. — Vanda violacea; Rhynchostylis violacea. 



S. Tiolaceum Harrisonianum, Williams. — A beautiful 



white-flowered variety of S. violaceum. It is a stout-growing 

 plant, with erect stems, bearing distichous leaves, which are 



