706 orchid-gkower's manual. 



S. AUREUM, Paxton.^-This is a really fine thing, growing 1 foot or more in 

 height, producing its deep orange flowers, which are shaded with rich crimson, 

 in July and August, and continuing in perfection a long time. We saw it 

 growing very freely at Heckfield, in the collection of the late Lord Eversley, 

 where many curious and interesting terrestrial species were at one time to be 

 found. — South Africa. 



Fig. — Paxton, Mag. But., xv. p. 31, with tab. 



SCHLIMIA, Planchon. 



(Tribe Vandeae, subtribo Maxillarieae.) 

 A small genus of epiphytal plants, having oblong sub-fusiform one- 

 leaved pseudobulbs, and erect simple spikes of largish flowers, the dorsal 

 sepal of which is narrow, and the lateral ones broad and united to form 

 an ample saccate chin, while the lip is small and included. There are 

 three nearly related described species, all found on the Colombian Andes. 



Culture. — These desirable and curious plants succeed well in the 

 Cattleya house, grown in a pot with good drainage. 



S. TRIFIDA, RM. f. — This is a very curious species, and well worth culti- 

 vation. In growth it resembles a Stanhopea, having a cluster of elongate-ovate 

 pseudobulbs, each furnished with a solitary oblong acute membranaceous leaf, 

 narrowed into a petiole at the base ; the peduncle is lateral, drooping, deep 

 purple, bearing a one-sided raceme of about four flowers of thick texture, and 

 of which the ligulate dorsal sepal is turned downwards, and the lateral sepals 

 are saccately connate into a helmet-like form, waxy white, with a few purple 

 spots inside ; the linear acute petals are bent outwards, and the lip has a 

 pandurate hypochil, trifid at the apex, which is white marked with rich orange, 

 the epichil being lance-shaped. It is a great acquisition on account of its 

 delicious perfume and its rarity ; the perfume is said to be between that of 

 jasmine and bergamot. — New Grenada. 



¥lG.— Gard. Chron., N.S., vii. p. 141, f. 22 ; VeitclCs Man. Oi-cli. PI., ix p. 147. 



SCHOMBURGKIA, Lindlcij. 



(Tribe Epidendreae, sitbtribe Laolieac.) 

 Of this epiphytal genus but few of the species are desirable for 

 cultivation where space is at all limited, for though the blossoms of 

 many of them are individually very attractive, they are too shy in 

 flowering, and as a rule they produce long spikes with but verj;- few 

 blossoms on them. In growth they resemble Cattleya or Laelia, except 

 that they are less compact. The stems are erect, fusiform, 12 inches or 

 more in length, with generally from one to thrse leaves on the top ; and 



