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SARCODES 



spring. The specific name sanguinea refers to the blood- 

 red color of the entire plant. The snow-plant grows at 

 an altitude of 4.000-9,000 ft. It is the only species 

 of the genus, ana is not known to be in cult. 



SARCOPODIUM (Greek f or flesh and foot). Orchidd- 

 cese. Warmhouse orchids, by some referred to Bulbo- 

 phyllum and Dendrobium. 



Rhizome creeping, the 2-lvd. pseudobulbs usually 

 distant on it: infl. terminal, the fls. single or in 

 racemes; sepals and petals similar, the former usually 

 forming a manifest chin; lip much smaller. Related to 

 Dendrobium, and much like it in fl.-structure. Species 

 about 20, in the Malay Penins. and adjacent islands, 

 and in the Trop. Himalayas. 



amplum, Lindl. (Dendrobium dmplum, Lindl. Bulbo- 

 phyllum dmplum, Reichb. f.). Habit much like a bulbo- 

 phyllum: pseudobulbs oblong, ovate, or fusiform, up to 

 2 in. long: Ivs. oblong, acute, 4-6 in. long, 2 in. broad: 

 fls. greenish white, suffused purplish; raceme few-fld., 

 dorsal sepal lanceolate, the lateral triangular; petals 

 linear-lanceolate, long-acuminate; lip with round lateral 

 lobes erect, the middle lobe rhomboid, acute. Trop. 

 Himalayas. P.M. 7:121. 



S. acumin&tum, Kranzl. (Dendrobium acummatum> Rolfe). 

 Raceme few- to many-fid., lax; sepals triangular, long-acuminate, 

 about 1}^ in. long; petals of same length but narrower, yellowish 

 white; lip with lateral lobes obovate, rounded, retuse, the midlobe 

 ovate-triangular, acute, the apex reflexed. G.C. III. 42:210; 

 46:150. G.M. 52:659. J.H. III. 59:291. S. Cadogyne, Kranzl. 

 (Dendrobium Coelogyne, Reichb. f.). Fls. usually solitary, large, 

 2-2 Vi in. across, fleshy, yellow or straw-color, purple-lined, the lip 

 deep purple; dorsal sepal lanceolate, the lateral broader and form- 

 ing a manifest angled obtuse chm; petals narrowly linear-lanceo- 

 late; lip with the ovate-acute front lobe separated by a narrow 

 isthmus. Tenasserim and Moulmein. C.O. Dend. 32. 0. 1910, p. 122. 

 J.H. III. 57:585. S. cymbidioides, Kranzl. (Dendrobium cym- 

 bidioides, Lindl. D. triflorum, Lindl.). Raceme few-fld.; fls. pale 

 yellow or straw-color, the lip yellow, suffused with rose or purple, 

 with 2 orange spots at base of middle lobe; sepals and petals similar, 

 acute, oblong-lanceolate, the sepals forming a very short rounded 

 chin; lip with the middle lobe ovate-cordate, obtuse, longer than 

 broad. Java and Philippines. G.33:417. G.W. 14, p. 405. G.C. III. 

 37:15. <S. Z/o66u=Bulbophyllum. S. Treacheri&num, Kranzl. 

 (Dendrobium Treacherianum, Reichb. f.). Raceme 3-5-fld. ; fls. 

 rose, the front part of lip yellow; dorsal sepal and petals linear- 

 lanceolate, the lateral sepals triangular, forming a round chin, all 

 the parts acuminate; lip with middle lobe linear-oblong, acuminate, 

 deflexed. Borneo. B.M. 6591. J.H. III. 48:137. 



GEORGE V. NASH. 



SARCOSTEMMA (name refers to the fleshy corona). 

 Asclepiadacese. A few small-fld. more or less succulent 

 leafless trailing or twining shrubs of the dry parts of 

 tropical and subtropical regions of the Old World, to 

 which N. E. Brown refers a plant long known as a 

 Euphorbia. Fls. greenish, yellowish, or white, in sessile 

 terminal or lateral umbels; corona double, the outer 



Eart ring-like or cup-shaped and truncate or shortly 

 )bed, the inner part of 5 fleshy erect lobes; pollen- 

 masses solitary in each anther-cell, pendulous. S. 

 viminale, R. Br. (Tithymalus pendulus, Haw. Euphor- 

 bia pendula, Link), grows in Trop. Afr.: trailing, twi- 

 ning, or bush-like, woody below, the Ivs. sometimes 

 represented by minute ovate bracts: corolla rotate or 

 somewhat campanulate, greenish white or sulfur-col- 

 ored. S. Brunonidnum, Wight & Arn., of India, has 

 yellow fls. The sarcostemmas require the treatment 

 given ceropegias and similar succulents. 



SARGENTODOXA (after C. S. Sargent, director of 

 the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University; and 

 Greek, doxe, glory). Lardizabalacese. A woody vine, 

 with deciduous 3-foliolate Ivs. and dioacious, yellow 

 campanulate fls. in pendulous racemes and with frs. 

 consisting of berry-like bluish black ovoid carpels. 

 Staminate fls. 6-merous; sepals petaloid; petals want- 

 ing; nectaries minute, suborbicular; stamens with 

 short filaments and oblong anthers: fr. consisting of 

 ovoid stipitate carpels each with 1 ovoid, glossy black 

 seed. Differs from all members of the family by its 

 numerous 1-ovuled carpels. One species in Cent. 



SARRACENIA 



China. A handsome vigorous-growing vine with rather 

 large foliage and fragrant yellow fls. appearing with the 

 leaves. Probably not hardy N. Prop, is by seed and by 

 layers or cuttings. S. cuneata, Rehd. & Wilson (Holbcellia 

 cuneata, Oliver, partly). Climbing, to 20 ft., glabrous: 

 Ivs. long-petioled; Ifts. 3, the middle one stalked, 

 rhombic to rhombic-obovate, 3-5 in. long, the lateral 

 ones sessile, very unsymmetrical, ovate, slightly larger 

 than the terminal one: staminate racemes 4-5 in. long; 

 fls. nearly H m - long, slender-stalked, yellow, fragrant; 

 sepals narrow-oblong; stamen much shorter; ripe car- 

 pels H m - long on a stalk of about equal length. H.I. 

 19: 1817 (excluding the fruits, which belong to Sinofran- 

 chetia). ALFRED REHDER. 



SARMIENTA (named after Mart. Sarmiento, a 

 Spanish botanist) . Gesneriacese. A glabrous shrub, creep- 

 ing or clambering over trees and rocks, to be grown in 

 a moist greenhouse: sts. slender: Ivs. opposite, rather 

 fleshy, entire or few-toothed: fls. red, peduncled at the 

 axils, solitary; calyx free, 5-parted, segms. narrow; 

 corolla-tube elongate, ventricose, limb slightly oblique, 

 lobes 5, rounded, spreading; stamens 2, posterior per- 

 fect, 2 anterior staminodea; disk obsolete; ovary supe- 

 rior. One species, Chile, S. repens, Ruiz & Pav. 

 Sts. slender: Ivs. rather small, somewhat fleshy: fls. 

 scarlet, axillary and solitary; calyx 5-parted; corolla- 

 lobes 5, rounded and spreading. Summer. G.C. III. 

 29:303. F.S. 16:1646. J.H. III. 47:413. It is said 

 that it does not always thrive very well in cult, and that 

 it should be planted in soft peat mixed with sphagnum 

 and charcoal and either in a small pan or orchid-basket. 

 It likes plenty of water, shade from bright sunshine and 

 a position near the glass in a moist house. 



SAROTHAMNUS SCOPARIUS: Cytisus scoparius. 



SARRACENIA (Dr. D. Sarrasin, of Quebec, a well- 

 known physician and naturalist of his day, who sent <S. 

 purpurea to Tournefort nearly two centuries ago) . Sar- 

 raceniacese. PITCHER-PLANT. INDIAN PITCHER-PLANT. 

 SIDE-SADDLE PLANT. DEVIL'S BOOTS. FOREFATHER'S 

 CUP. HUNTSMAN'S CUP. TRUMPETS. WATCHES. 

 Pitcher-plants of swamps and savannas of the eastern 

 United States, grown for their great oddity. 



Acaulescent perennial herbs, with hollow radical Ivs. 

 usually provided with a lid or expanded blade, with a 

 wing or keel on one side, variously colored: fl. single, 

 terminating a naked scape, nodding, perfect, the parts 

 mostly free and distinct; sepals and petals each 5, the 

 latter incurved and deciduous, the sepals thick and 

 persistent; bracts 3 beneath the calyx; stamens many; 

 ovary globose, 5-celled, with 1 short style bearing a 

 broadly expanded umbrella-like 5-rayed structure on 

 the margin of which are borne the stigmatic surfaces: 

 fr. a loculicidally 5-yalved many-seeded dehiscent caps. 



The family consists of three genera, Darlingtonia, 

 Heliamphora, each with a single species, and Sarracenia, 

 with seven species. The present genus is confined to 

 North America, and almost wholly to the region east 

 of the Mississippi. The most widely distributed spe- 

 cies is S. purpurea, that extends from Florida and 

 Alabama to Labrador and Minnesota. The others 

 occur from southern Virginia to Florida and eastern 

 Texas. All grow in moist or even in swampy savanna 

 lands, in black sandy humus soil. The striking and 

 beautiful pitchered leaves, as well as the large hand- 

 some flowers, early attracted the attention of gardeners, 

 so long ago even as three centuries. But the apparent 

 difficulty of cultivation long prevented their becoming 

 popular objects. The careful observations of Macbride 

 and Mellichamp in the southern states, and later of J. 

 Hooker in England, clearly proved that the pitchered 

 leaves are carnivorous, ana that they show a remarka- 

 ble microscopic structure in connection with this habit. 

 Such has caused them to become popular objects of 



