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leathery leaves, ■whicb. ave like those of S. crispa, and the tall flower scapes, 

 which grow 3 to 4 feet long, and bear a broad raceme of numerous long-stalked 

 flowers, the pedicels of which are yellow and deflexed at the tip, and the 

 flowers themselves have obtuse ovate crispy sepals and petals, white, marked 

 thickly with parallel transverse purple bars and spots on each side of the 

 centre, and a smaller acute lip, scarcely spotted, white, edged with yellow. It 

 will succeed either on a block or in a basket suspended from the roof, and 

 lasts in bloom three weeks. — Jamaica. 



Fig.— -Bot. J/ojr,, t. 5172 ; Floi-e des Serves, t. 2130. 



S. ROSEA, Lindl. — An old species, which appears to have been only recently 

 ro-introduced to cultivation, allied to 8. undMlata, but having smaller flowers 

 than that species. It flowered with us in 1892, and with H, J. Ross, Esq., 

 of Florence, in 1893. The sepals and petals are reddish-purple, margins wavy ; 

 lip rosy-purple, This species is freer flowering than most of the Sohomburghias, 

 and has shorter spikes than is usual with many kinds. Elowers in winter and 

 early spring.— rJVeiu Grenada. 



S. SANDERIANA, Bolfe.— This beautiful species is allied to S. Humboldti, 

 and was introduced in 1886 by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., who first flowered it in 

 18.91. Psbudobulbs conical cylindrical, about 9 inches high, ribbed, bearing at 

 the top two thick rigid oblong obtuse leaves, about 5 inches long and 2^ inches 

 broad ; gcape exceeding 2 feet in length, many-flowered; flowers rosy purple, 

 about 3 inches across ; sepals oblong-lanceolate ; petals broader, oblanceolate- 

 oblong ; lip three-lobed, mid lobe 1 J inch long, rounded in outline, margin wavy, 

 veined with deep rosy purple in the centre. — Tropical America. 



Fig.— Jb«™. 0/ //()7'f., 1891, xxii. p. 163, f. 30; Id., xxiii. p. 503, f. 92; Reiclien- 

 hacUia, 2n(l .ser., ii. t. 59. 



S. THOMSONIANA, Bchl. /.—A species with the habit of 5". tiUcinis, but 

 somewhat smaller ; the flowers also resemble that species. Sepals ligulate, 

 undulate, pale yellow inside, outside mauve, dotted with white, bordered with 

 pale yellow, and a green mid-nerve at the top ; petals light sulphur-yellow 

 having some dark purple lines and streaks at the back ; lip three-lobed, maroon- 

 purple, disk yellow with some blackish purple keels. It flowered in the 

 collection of W. J. Thomson, Esq., of St. Helens, Lancashire, to whom it is 

 dedicated. — Nodive country not stated. 



S. TISICINIS, Baieman. — The most beautiful species of the genus, a truly 

 noble and most effective plant. The stems are conical in outline, horn-shaped, 

 annulate, furrowed, 1| foot long, hollow, and of ample size when well grown — 

 indeed, it will not flower until the stems become strong ; they bear at the top two 

 or three oblong stout leathery spreading leaves, and a terminal panicle of manv 

 flowers on a scape 5 feet or more in length ; these flowers measure more than 

 2 inches across ; the sepals and petals are oblong-obtuse, wavy, pink, spotted 

 with rich chocolate, the lip white, with rose colour on the large erect side lobes. 

 Its usual time of blooming is May and June, and it will keep flowering for six 

 weeks. We have found it to grow best on a block, with plenty of heat and 

 moisture during the growing season. The variety GRANDIFLORA has larger 



