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unequally bilobed at the apex, but of a somewhat lighter green colour than in 

 the typical S. violaceum ; it produces dense axillary racemes, sometimes as 

 much as 2 feet long, of large pure white blossoms, which are remarkably 

 sweet-scented, and as these are produced in the winter season they become 

 doubly valuable on that account. — Pulo Gopang, an island in the Chinese Seas. 



FiGr.—Bot. Mag., t. 5433 ; Flore des Serves, t. 2412 ; OrcMi Albmi, v. t. 236 ; 

 VntoJi's Man. Oreli. PL, vii. p. 118. 



Stn. — S. Harrisimiamim. 



SARCOCHILUS, B. Brown. 

 (JTrihe Vandeae, suitribe Sarcantheae.) 



A genus of epiphytal Orchids containing about thirty species, most 

 of which are, however, unknown to cultivators in this country. Several 

 of the species included by Benthara in this genus were j)laced by 

 Eeichenbach under Thri^spennum. They are distributed over India, 

 Malaysia, Australia, and the Pacific Islands. 



Culture. — These plants may be grown in sphagnum moss with good 

 drainage, either in baskets oi* pots, suspended from the roof, and should 

 be placed at the warmest end of the East Indian house. They should 

 be well shaded from the sun and kept moist during the summer, even in 

 winter they should never be allowed to become dry, as they have no 

 thick fleshy bulbs to support them. 



S. BERKELEYI, Hoolcer f. — Leaves ligulate obtuse, keeled beneath, dark 

 green ; racemes pendent many flowered ; flowers small creamy-white ; lip 

 stained with mauve; dorsal sepal slightly hooded; lip saccate three-lobed, side 

 lobes small, middle lobe having two horn-like projections ; column short and 

 with a beaked anther resembling the head and neck of a bird. Discovered by 

 Major-Gen. E. S. Berkeley. — Malay Archipelago. 



Fig. — Orchid Alhiv;, x. t. 430 ; Veitch's Man. Orcli. PI., vii. p. 57. ] 

 Syn. — ThrixHpernmm- Brrlu'lcyi. 



S. FIT2GERALDI, F. von Milller. — A very pretty little Australian species 

 discovered by Mr. Eobert Fitzgerald, of Sydney, who found it close to the Naroo 

 Falls and the surrounding streams, attached to the dripping rocks, which it 

 covers with its green roots ; leaves leathery, oblong, about 5 inches long, scapes 

 pendent, many flowered ; the flowers measure about 1 inch across ; sepals and 

 petals similar ovate, white in colour, densely spotted at the base with rosy- 

 purple in concentric lines of elongated narrow spots, similar to what obtains in 

 Oclo7itoglossuin Oervantesi ; lip short, saccate, three-lobed, the side lobes white 

 spotted with rosy-purple, the middle lobe yellow. — Australia. 



Fig. — Fitzgerald's Avstr. Orel-., i. pait 2 ; Veitch's Man. Orcli. PI., vii. p. .5s. 



