THE ORCHID REVIEW. [ApRIL, 1918. 
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reas SCUTICARIA STEELEI. Pay 
HE remarkable Guiana Orchid here figured has been known for upwards 
of eighty years, but is not often seen in goodcondition at the present 
time. It is remarkable for its long, whip-like leaves, which sometimes reach 
a length of three to four feet, while the flowers, which have an expanse of 
nearly three inches, are borne singly on rather short peduncles, and are light 
Fig. t0. ScuTicariA STEELEI. 
yellow in colour, spotted with red-brown. The species was introduced from 
Demerara by Mr. Matthew Steele, in 1836, and flowered in the collection of 
John Moss, Esq., Otterspool, near Liverpool, in the following year, when it 
was figured in the Botanical M agazine (t. 3573) under the name of Maxillaria 
Steelei, Hook. It afterwards became the type of a new genus, being 
called Scuticaria Steelei by Lindley (Bot. Reg., 1843, Misc. p. 14). Its 
habitat is given by the Brothers Schomburgk, who collected it during theit 
exploration of British Guiana in 1840 to 1844, as on the banks of the rivers 
Essequibo and Demerara, growing on the trunks of trees, and flowering in 
