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ORCHID-GKOWER S MANUAL. 



S. CERNUA, Lindl. — A remarkably small epiptyte found on trees, and 

 attaining a height of about 3 inches, growing amongst the moss. It has short 

 two-edged stems (scarcely pseudobulbs) sheathed with scales, produced on a 

 creeping rhizome, each bearing a solitary oval apiculate leaf rather more than 

 1 inch long, and a short effuse axillary raceme of small rosy-red flowers, yellowish 

 in the centre ; the column is white, with dark purple wings. It blooms during 

 the winter, lasting long in beauty. — Brazil. 



FiQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 3677 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1129 ; Paxton, Fl. Gard., iii. p. 10, f. 236. 



Syjj. — S, Soffmannseggii ; S. nutans. 



S. COCCINEA, Rdlib.f. — An exceedingly beautiful species, with short oval 

 terete stems, each bearing a single oblong acute dark green leaf, about 3 inches 

 in length, and solitary flowers upwards of 3 inches in diameter, of stout 

 substance, and of a brilliant rosy-scarlet colour ; the sepals are linear-oblong 

 obtuse, the petals three times as broad, and the undivided lip ovate cucuUate 

 at the base. Dr. Lindley included this plant under 8. grandiflora. It blooms 

 during the winter months, and should be either grown on a block with a little 

 moss attached, or in a small basket with moss and a little peat, and suspended 

 from, the roof. — Brazil. 



¥ia.— Flore des Serres, t. 1716. 



Syn. — Cattlcya coccincn. 



S. GRANDIFLORA, Lindl. — A truly handsome species, the finest of the genus, 

 the flowers of which are large, and of a beautiful scarlet colour, lasting six 



weeks or more in perfection. 

 The pseudobulbs are oblong 

 cylindraceous, bearing one 

 elliptic leaf, and a solitary 

 flower fully 3 inches across, 

 with oblong-lanceolate sepals 

 and roundish elliptic petals 

 of a bright cinnabar or deep 

 crimson-scarlet, and a three- 

 lobod lip, the side lobes of 

 which are incurved, and the 

 acuminate front lobe flat, all 

 these parts yellow with bright 

 red streaks. This plant, which 

 blooms in November and Dec- 

 ember, ought to be in every col- 

 lection. Two varieties of it are grown, the one producing short obtuse leaves, 

 with exceedingly brilliant-coloured flowers, the other with the leaves and pseudo- 

 bulbs longer ; this latter appears to be the same as S. cocchiea. Mr. Warner's 

 figure represents forms with vermilion and crimson flowers respectively. — 

 Organ Mountains, Brazil. 



'FlG.—Sertum Orch.,t. 5 ; Bot. Mag.,t. 3709 ; Moore, III. Orch. Pl.,(_Sophronitis),t. 1 ; 

 Jennings, Orch., t. 5 ; Floral Mag., t. 329 ; Warner, Sel. Oroh. PI., iii. t. 3 (two forms) ; 

 Puydt, Lea Oroh., t. 41 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., ix. p. 193, with tab. ; Sart. Parad., i. t. IB ; 

 Paxton, Fl. Gard., iii. p. 10, f. 237 ; Hooh. Fi,r.it Cent. Orch. PL, t. 41 ; Revue Hort. Beige, 

 1887, p. 5 (plate) ; Rome Hort., 1887, p. 492 (plate), f . 2 (var. avrantlaeaS ; Lindcnia, iv. 

 t. 161 ; Gard. Chron., 3rd ser., 1891. ix. p. 669, f. 127. 



SOPHBONITIS GEANDIFLOEA. 



