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chin, and the lip is sessile, articulated, broad and concave, the lateral 

 lobes large, erect, the middle one smaller and spreading. Two or three 

 species are known, all from Tropical America. 



Culture. — The Scuiicanas will do either in the Cattleya or East India 

 house, and may be grown either on blocks or in baskets with moss, a 

 liberal supply of water being necessary at the roots in the gi-owmg 

 season. They are propagated by dividing the plants just as they begm 

 to grow. 



S. DODGSONI, Williams.— A very distinct and handsome species. The 

 leaves are terete, 1 foot or more in length, and of a dark green colour ; the 

 peduncle is short, hearing two flowers; the sepals and petals light brown 

 inside, darker at the base, and blotched with light yellow ; the lip white, cup- 

 shaped, beautifully streaked with light rose and yellow.— Said to have been 

 introduced from Bemerara. 



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S. HADWENIl, Hort. — A prettj- and rare Orchid, whose few cylindrical fleshy 

 roots grow from a short knotty rhizome, which also produces from a sheathing 

 swollen base the terete leaves, IJ foot long, acute at the top, and furrowed on the 

 inner face. The scapes are erect, each bearing one flower, which has oblong 

 spreading sharply acuminate sepals and petals of a pale yellow green irregularly 

 blotched with dark brown, and a large obovate cucullate lip, white marked with 

 flesh-colourod longitudinal spots, downy inside, and having an oblong crest, 



