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tlie flower scapes proceed from their apex, and are from 3 to 5 feet long. 

 The flowers are large, with spreading sepals and petals, which are more 

 or less nndulated, and the lip is erect, shortly connate with the base of 

 the column, which is loosely enfolded by its side lobes, the central lobe 

 being roundish or bluntly two-lobed, flat, or sometimes wavy. About a 

 dozen species natives of Tropical America are known. Those mentioned 

 below may be recommended for cultivation. 



Calture. — They succeed in the Gattleya house on blocks, or in baskets 

 suspended from the roof, in sphagnum moss or moss and peat mixed 

 together, or they may be grown in pots equally well if that system is 

 preferred. A liberal supply of water is necessary during the growing- 

 season; but after they have completed their growth, water should be 

 withheld until they begin to show flower. Propagation is effected by 

 parting the stems. 



S. CRISPA, Lindl. — A pretty species, with fusiform steins a foot high, 

 bearing at the top two or three large oblong lanceolate leathery leaves, and 

 from the base of the upper leaf a braoteated peduncle from 3 to 5 feet long, at 

 the apex of which is produced a broad crowded raceme of brown flowers, the 

 oblong sepals and petals of which have a yellow undulated margin; the ovate 

 oblong obtuse obscurely three-lobed lip is white. In the form figured in the 

 Botanical Magazine the sepals and petals are wholly of a dull brick-red. The 

 plant does best in a pot or basket, and will grow to a considerable size. It 

 blooms during winter, and will last three weeks in perfection if the flowers are 

 kept dry. — Demerara. 



Fia.Si-rtiim Oi-ch., t. 10 ; Bot. Reg., 1844, t. 23 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3729. 



S. HUMBOLDTI, Rchh. f. — A beautiful species, discovered by Humboldt and 

 Bonpland in the beginning of this century, but which remained unknown in 

 Europe till 1848, when Eeiohenbach named and described it. Wagner found it 

 later in the same place. According to Veitch's Manual it was lost sight of in 

 British gardens until in 1887 Messrs. Backhouse & Sons, of York, flowered it. 

 Pseudobulbs oblong-pyriform, strongly ribbed, two- or three-leaved; leaves 

 cuneate oblong obtuse; scapes produced from the top of the pseudobulbs; 

 flowers resembling those of a Laelia ; sepals oblong ligulate ; petals obovate, 

 broader than the sepals, rosy-purple; lip three-lobed, side lobes narrow, bent 

 over the column, their apices turned a little outwards, mid lobe large, with a 

 deep sinus in front, the margin serrate, magenta-purple ; disk yellow, with 

 purple lamellae at the base. — Puerto Cahello, Venc::uela. 



Fig. — Xpnia Orchidarea, i. t. 52 {Epldcndrum Ilumholdti). 

 Syn. — Epidendrum Ilumboldtl. 



S. LYONSI, Lindl. — A handsome kind, the " prettiest of the genus." The 

 stems grow about 1 foot in height, and from their apex are produced the 



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