146 SCHLIMIA. 



apical half scmi-transpai'oiit, spreading and with fimbriate margin. 

 Column semi-terete with vmy narrow wings. 



Stenia finibriata, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1313. Chondrorrliynclia fimbriata, 

 Echb. in Saunders' Ecf. Bot. II. t. 107 (1872). 



A native of the eastern CorJillera of New Granada at a considerable 

 elevation. It was first detected by Schlim about the year 1847 

 near Ocana, and it was afterwards gathered by Blunt, Roezl and 

 other collectors of orchids in that region. It was introduced into 

 European gardens by M. Linden, of Brussels, in 1868, through 

 Gustav Wallis. 



Cultural Note. — This plant was first cultivated in England by the 

 late Mr, Wilson Saunders, at Hillfield, Reigate, who placed it in a cool 

 damp shady house, where it grew freely and produced its flowers -very 

 regularly when potted in peat and sphagnum, and carefully drained.* 



SCHLIMIA. 



Planchon in Lind. Catal. 1852, ex Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard. III. p. 115, fig. 287. Benth. 

 et Hook. Gen. Plant. III. p. 553. 



Pchlimia includes three closely allied Colombian species of which 

 8. trifida is the best known. The genus is chiefly distinguished by 

 its peculiarly-shaped flowers which approach somewhat those of a 

 Stanhopea, and thus like Stenia it is a connecting link between 

 Stanhopea and Maxillaria. It commemorates Louis Schlim, a relative 

 of M. Linden and a collector of orchids for him in Colombia, and who 

 discovered and introduced the type species 8. jasminodora in 1850 — 51. 



Schlimia trifida. 



Pseudo-bulbs sub-fusiform, about an incli long, monophyllous, Leaves 



shortly petiolate, elliptic-oblong, acute, 4 — 6 inches long. Scapes drooping, 



dull purple, bearing a one-sided (usually inverted) four-flowered raceme. 



Flowers 2 inches across vertically, very fragrant, white with some 



purple spots on the dorsal sepal which is oblong, obtuse ; the lateral 



sepals produced into a large helmet-shaped sac ; petals linear, acute, 



reflexed towards their apex ; lip shorter than the other segments, 



tripartite, the hypochile sub-pandurate Avith an orange-yellow blotch, the 



epichile lanceolate. Column semi-terete with two sub-quadrate fleshy 



wings. 



Schlimia trifida, Rclib. in Gard. Chron. VI. (1876), p. 706. Id. VII. (1877), 

 p. 141, with figs. 



The origin of this curious and interesting plant is involved in 

 * Kef. Bot. II. sub. t. 107. 



