580 oechid-growek's manual. 



S. BuceplialllS, Lindley. — A beautiful species, certainly one 

 of the richest coloured in the whole family. It has small 

 ovate ribbed pseudobulbs, each producing one stalked oblong 

 acuminate plicate leaf, and a deflexed raceme of several large 

 showy flowers, which are of a rich tawny orange, with large 

 blood-red blotches, and in which the hypochil is boat-shaped, 

 the mesochil is bicomute, and the epichil is roundish ovate 

 and cuspidate. Dr. Lindley makes two varieties, one with 

 pale rich yellow flowers, with purple dots and small blotches 

 everywhere except on the hypochil ; and the other (guttata) 

 with the sepals, petals, and hypochil deep apricot, with four 

 brown blotches on the hypochil and also on each petal. The 

 flowers are usually produced about the month of August ; and, 

 like most of those in this family, they emit a powerful and 

 fragrant odour. — Peru; Ecuador. 



FiG.—Bot. Reg., 1845, t. 24 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5278 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, 

 Stanhopea 2 ; Hmnb. et Bonpl. PL jEquin., t. 27. 



Syn. — Epidendrum grandiforum ; Anguloa grandiflora. 



S. Devoniensis, Lindley. — This beautiful species has ovate 

 ribbed pseudobulbs, lanceolate plaited shortly stalked pale 

 green leaves, and two-flowered peduncles. The flowers, which 

 are produced during July and August, are extremely sweet- 

 scented, pale creamy yellow, thickly blotched with irregular 

 spots of deep crimson-purple, the markings on the petals and 

 dorsal sepal taking the form of bold transverse bars near the 

 base ; the lip is whitish spotted with purple, the hypochil 

 subglobose, with a deep purple stain over the lower half, 

 the mesochil short two-horned, and the epichil obtuse-angled, 

 rhomboid, obsoletely three-toothed at the end. It is dis- 

 tinguished from S. tigrina, which it resembles, by its slightly 

 divided epichil. — Peru. 



Fie. — Sertum Orch., t. 1 ; Fl. des Serres, t. 974 ; Puydt, Les Orch., t. 42. 



S. gibbosa, Pichh. f. — A very fine and distinct species, 

 flowering in June and July. The plant is in the way of S. 

 Wardii, and bears very large flowers, about six inches in 

 diameter, and of a dull yellow barred and blotched with dull 

 crimson, this colouring assuming a much darker hue in the 

 sepals ; the hypochil is incurved, keeled on each side, the 

 mesochil is furnished with falcate ligulate horns, and the 

 epichil is oblong acute. This plant was well bloomed in 

 1883 by Mr. Peacock of Hammersmith, and Mr. Wallis, of 

 Balham, who had a plant bearing five spikes of flowers. — 

 Native Country not stated. 



