SOPHRONITIS GRANDIFLORA. 
[PuaTE 504.] 
Native of the Organ Mountains, Brazil. 
Kpiphytal. Psewdobulbs short, one to two inches long, oblong-cylindraceous, 
bearing a solitary elliptic coriaceous leaf, two to three inches long. Scape terminal, 
springing from the apex of the immature pseudobulbs, short, one-flowered. Mowers 
about two to three inches in diameter, of pleasing form and colour; sepals oblong- 
lanceolate, bright cinnabar or deep crimson-scarlet ; petals broadly ovate, acute, bright 
cinnabar or deep crimson-scarlet; lip three-lobed, front lobe acuminate, side lobes 
incurved, yellow streaked with crimson. Column free, winged at the apex, wings 
entire, connivent upon the crest of the lip, yellow. 
SopHRoNITIS GRANDIFLORA, Lindley, Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 5, fig. 2. Botanical 
Magazine, t. 3709. Pasxton’s Magazine of Botany, ix., p. 193 (with plate). Flore 
des Serres, ts 49: Walper’s Annales Botanicae Systematicae, Vi) D465. 
Hartinger Paradisus Vindobonensis, i, t. 15. Moore's IIlustrations of Orchidaceous 
Plants (Sophronitis), t. 1. Jennings’ Orchids, t. 5. Floral Magazine, t. 329. 
Warner’s Select Orchidaceous Plants, iii, t. 3. Hooker's First Century of Orchid. 
aceous Plants, t. 41. De Puydt, Les Orchadées, t. 41. Paxton’s Flower Garden, 
lil, p. 10, fig. 237. Revue d’Horticulture Belge, 1887, p. 5 (plate). Revue 
Horticole, 1887, p. 492 (with plate). Lindenia, iv., t. 161. Gardeners’ Chronicle, 
8rd series, 1891, ix., p. 669, fig. 127.  Veitch’s Manual of Orchidaceous Plants, 
ik, p. 106. Williams’ Orchid Grower’s Manual, 7th edition, p. 715. 
Carrtteya coccinea, Lindley, Botanical Register, sub. t. 1919. 
This is a charming dwarf-growing epiphytal plant, with large showy flowers. 
It was first discovered many years ago in Brazil by M. Descourtilz, upon the high 
mountains that separate the district of Bannanal from that of Ilha Grande, where 
it grows in abundance upon fallen and decayed trees; and was found also by 
Mr. Gardner on the Organ Mountains. It was first flowered in the nurseries of 
Messrs. Loddiges, of Hackney, in 1841. It may truly be said to be a miniature- 
growing plant, growing in large tufts, as described above. There are two or three 
forms of this plant, one with rose-coloured flowers, and the other with pale vermilion 
colour. It is a charming plant for growing amongst cool Orchids, its brilliant scarlet 
flowers contrasting well with the other kinds, more especially Odontoglossum crispum. 
It is a plant that should be in every collection, as it will be found invaluable, 
flowering as it does during the winter months ; indeed, a quantity of plants 1s 
desirable as taking up but little room, it being so easily accommodated. 
Sophronitis grandiflora produces oblong-cylindrical pseudobulbs, bearing each a 
solitary elliptic leaf, which is leathery in texture, and from two to three inches 
