572 okchid-gkower's manual. 



j)urple within, the disk white, and the front lobe white stained 

 with yellow and bordered with purple. — Honduras. 



Fig.— Bof. Mag., t. 4476 (grandiflora) ; Batem., Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 30 ; 

 Bot. Reg., 1845, it. 30 (grandiflora) ; Flore des Serves, t. 49 (grandiflora) ; 

 Orchid Album, v. t. 205. 



Syn. — Eindendrum tibicinis. 



SCUTICARIA, Lindhy. 

 {Tribe Vandese, suhtribe Maxillariese.) 



A small genus of curious epiphytal plants, producing very 

 short fleshy one-leaved stems, the leaves being very long, 

 fleshy, subterete, furrowed, continuous with the stem. The 

 scapes are one-flowered, about two inches high, and grow 

 from the side of the stem, the flowers themselves being very 

 handsome. The sepals and petals are erecto-patent, the 

 lateral sepals adnate with the foot of the column forming a 

 prominent chin, and the lip is sessile, articulated, broad and 

 concave, the lateral lobes large, erect, the middle one smaller 

 and spreading. Two or three species are known, all from 

 Tropical America. 



Culture. — The Scuticarias will do in the Cattleya or East 

 India house, and may be grown either on blocks or in baskets 

 with moss, a liberal supply of water being necessary at the 

 roots in the growing season. They are propagated by 

 dividing the plants just as they begin to grow. 



S. DodgSOni, Williams. — A very distinct and handsome 

 species. The leaves are terete, a foot or more in length, 

 and of a dark green colour. The peduncle is short, bearing 

 two flowers ; the sepals and petals light brown inside, darker 

 at the base, and blotched with light yellow ; the lip white, 

 cup-shaped, beautifully streaked with light rose and yellow. — 

 Said to have been introduced from Demerara. 



S. Hadwenii, Hort. — A pretty and rare Orchid, whose few 

 cylindrical fleshy roots grow from a short knotty rhizome, 

 which also produces from a sheathing swollen base the terete 



