are produced in succession, for as soon as one flower goes off another appears, 
until the buds in the sheath are exhausted. ach of its large bright reflexed 
flowers lasts some three or four days. They have oblong lanceolate sepals, broader 
petals, which are wavy at the edge, both being of a pale or sulphur-yellow, and the 
longer emarginate lip is very much frilled, and of a deeper yellow colour. It blooms 
during the summer months, and is one of the most beautiful plants that have been 
introduced to our plant stoves. 
All the Sobralias are free-growing terrestrial Orchids, and of easy culture if 
they get the treatment required. They come from Mexico and Guatemala, so that 
they do not really require a strong heat; and although we have formerly grown 
them in the East India house, we have of late found them do better under cooler 
treatment, as they grow more robust, and keep more free from insects. When 
grown in too warm a house these pests often infest their foliage, which causes it 
to turn black, and is very injurious to the health of the plants. We have not 
grown the species represented in our plate, but it no doubt comes from the same 
country, and requires the same treatment as S. macrantha does. They require good- 
sized pots to grow them in, as they are free-rooting plants, requiring to be shifted 
as they increase in size and fill the pots with growth and roots. We find them 
thrive in a compost of rough fibrous peat, and equally well in rough fibrous loam 
and leaf-mould, with good drainage, which is essential, as they require a cop1ous 
supply of water during their active growth, which occurs after their flowering season 
is past; in fact they are growing nearly all the year. They require a slight shade 
during the hot days of summer. 
These plants are propagated by dividing the plants when they are of sufficient 
size; they should have a young growth and some old stems at the back of it. 
This operation should be performed just as they are beginning to grow after they 
have flowered; pot the divided portions in the same material as that in which they 
have been grown, in pots just large enough for them, keeping them shaded until they 
begin to make fresh roots, then give them less shade, which will induce them to 
grow strong. As they increase in growth give them larger pots, as they may be 
thought to require it. ; 
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