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apex of which is produced a broad crowded raceme of browu 

 flowers, the oblong sepals and petals of which have a yellow 

 undulated margin ; the ovate oblong obtuse obscurely three- 

 lobed lip is white. In the form figured in the Botanical 

 Magazine the sepals and petals are wholly of a dull brick red. 

 The plant does best in a pot or basket, and will grow to a 

 considerable size ; it blooms during winter, and will last three 

 weeks in perfection if the flowers are kept dry. — Demerara. 



Fm. -Sertum Orch., t. 10 ; Bot. Beg., 1844, t. 23 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3729. 



S. Lyonsi, LimUey. — A handsome kind, the "prettiest of 

 the genus." The stems grow about a foot in height, and 

 from their apex are produced the leathery leaves, which are 

 like those of *S'. crispa, and the tall flower scapes, which grow 

 three or four feet long, and bear a broad raceme of numerous 

 long-stalked flowers, the pedicels of which are yellow and 

 deflexed at the tip, and the flowers themselves have obtuse 

 ovate crispy sepals and petals, white, marked thickly with 

 parallel transverse purple bars and spots on each side of the 

 centre, and a smaller, acute lip, scarcely spotted, white edged 

 with yellow. It will succeed either on a block or in a basket 

 suspended from the roof, and lasts in bloom three weeks. — 

 Jamaica. 



Fig.— Bo^ Mag., t. 5172 ; Flo)-e des Serres, t. 2130. 



S. tiWcinis, Boteman. — The most beautiful species of the 

 genus, a truly noble and most effective plant. The stems are 

 conical in outline, horn-shaped, annulate, furrowed, a foot and 

 a half long, hollow, and of ample size when well grown — indeed 

 it will not flower until the stems become strong ; they bear at 

 top two or three oblong leathery spreading leaves, and a ter- 

 minal panicle of many flowers on a scape five feet or more in 

 length. These flowers measure more than two inches across ; 

 the sepals and petals are oblong obtuse, wavy, pink spotted 

 with rich chocolate, the lip white with rose colour on the 

 large erect side lobes. Its usual time of blooming is May 

 and June, and it will keep flowering for six weeks. We have 

 found it to grow best on a block, with plenty of heat and 

 moisture during the growing season. The variety grandiflora 

 has larger and more handsomely coloured flowers, the sepals 

 and petals palish purple, deeper and redder on the inner 

 surface, especially towards the ends, the lip with the side lobes 

 purplish towards the edges outside, orange streaked with 



