SCHOMBURGKIA — SCUTICAEI A . 



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and more handsomely coloured flowers, the sepals and petals palish purple, 



deeper and redder on the inner surface, especially towards the ends, the lip 



w^ith the side lobes purplish 



tow^ards the edges outside, 



orange streaked with purple 



within, the disk white, and 



the front lobe white, stained 



with yellow and bordered 



with purple. — Honduras. 



¥IG. — Sot. Mag., t. 4476 

 (jirandiflord) ; J3atem. Orcli. iTcx. 

 et Guat., t. 30; Sot. Reg., 1845, 

 t. 30 (jj rand! flora) ; Flore (lc.<: 

 Serrcs,t. 49 Q/randiflora') ; Orchid 

 -ilium, V. t. 205 ; Vcitch's Man. 

 Orcli. PL, ii. p. 103 ; Oard. 

 Chron., 3rd ser., 1888, iv. p. 212, 

 f. 25 ; Id., 1891, ix. p. 651, 1 12B. 



Syk. — Epidendrum tiiieinis. 



S. UNDULATA, LincU.—A. 

 pretty species, discovered by 

 Linden in 1841 near Truxillo, 

 in Venezuela, and found later 

 by him in New Grenada, and 

 by Wagener, near Caracas. It 

 first flowered in this country 

 in the collection of the late ,, 



Mr. Bucker, at Wandsworth. It has fusiform pseudobulbs, about 1 foot 

 high, bearing lovely green leathery leaves, from 6 to 8 inches long ; spike 

 terminal, from 2 to 6 feet long, bearing at the top a somewhat dense raceme ; 

 sepals and petals linear-oblong, purplish-brown, much undulated and twisted ; 

 lip three-lobed, side lobes oblong, arching over the column, rosy-purple ; mid 

 lobe dordate apiculate, purple, bearing on the disk five raised white ridges. 

 Mowers in March and April, lasting several weeks in perfection. — Venezuela; 

 Caracas; jVeii; Orenada. 



'Fia.— Sot. Reg:, 1845, t. 53 ; Feseatorea, t. 32 ; Warner, Sel. Orcli. PI., ii. t. 21 ; 

 L'Orchidophile, 1889, p. 16 (plate) ; Orchid Allium, vii. t. 335. 



SCHOMBUBGKIA TIBICINIS. 



SCUTICARIA, Undley. 



(^Tribe Vandeae, suttribe Maxillarieae.) 



A small genus of curious epipHytal plants, producing very short 

 fleshy one-leaved stems, the leaves being very long, fleshy, sub-terete, 

 furrowed, continuous with the stem. The scapes are one-flowered, about 

 2 inches high, and grow from the side of the stem, the flowers themselves 

 being very handsome. The sepals and petals are erecto-patent, the 

 lateral sepals adnate ^Yith the foot of the column forming a prominent 



