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ORCHID-GROWERS MANUAL. 



S. AUGUSTORUM, Bchh. /.— Tliis species has been introduced by the 

 Compagnie Continentale d' Horticulture from the Sondaic Archipelago, where 

 it was discovered by M. Auguste Linden and M. Auguste de Eonne, to whom, 

 as companions in travel, the species has been jointly dedicated by Professor 

 Eeichenbach. It is a most lovely species, with ovoid pseudobulbs, bearing 

 several oblong-ligulate, acute, plicate, deep-green leaves, which leave annular 

 scars on the upper end of the older bulbs ; the flower scape is tall and erect, 

 and is crowned by a crowded raceme of numerous beautiful flowers which are 

 freely expanded, and each measures some 2^ inches across ; the sepals and 

 petals, which are oblong acute, the latter rather the broader, being of a pale 

 rosy-blush, and the three-lobed lip carmine-rose, the two lateral lobes deeper 

 carmine, ligulate, retuse, and incurved, the middle lobe of a more rosy tint, 

 oblong obovate, emarginate, tapering behind into a long narrow wedge-shaped 

 claw. The callus is stalked, triangular, almost tetragonal at the summit, yellow 

 marked with spots of carmine ; and the column is clavate and incurved at the 

 tip, where it is tinted with rose-colour. It was found at an elevation of about 

 1,300 feet in a hollow, beside a rooky torrent, where it was constantly moist 

 and shady. — 8unda Islands. 



Fig. — Journ. of Sort., 1886, xiii. p. 277, f. 41 ; Lindenia, i. t. 25. 



S. AUREA, Lindl. — A very beautiful and distinct species, with leaves 3 feet 

 in length, and bright yellow flowers 3 inches across. It was introduced by 



Messrs. J. Veitch & Sons from 

 Mount Ophir, Malacca, in 1849. 

 This plant is well cultivated by 

 Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 Dorking, and Lord Rothschild, 

 Tring Park. — Malacca. 



Fig. — Gard. Chron., 3rd Fcr., 

 1888, iv. p. 93, f. 9 ; VeitcKs Man. 

 Orch. PI., vi. p. 5. 



S. PLICATA.— This most de- 

 sirable terrestrial Orchid has 

 been flowered in the celebrated 

 collection of Baron von Hruby, of 

 Peckau, in Bohemia. The species 

 is found rather widely spread in 

 the Pacific Islands, and is a 

 welcome re-introduction in this 

 interesting group. It has coni- 

 cal, ovoid pseudobulbs which 

 bear at their upper end a tuft 

 of three or four long-stalked 

 lanceolate, acute, plicate leaves, 

 the bases of which leave annular 

 scars on the older bulbs. The 

 flowers grow on an erect scape, eight or ten in number, in a crowded raceme 

 at the upper end of the scape, and are more than 1| inch across, spread open, 

 and of a pleasing purple colour; the sepals elliptic; the petals ovate; the lip 



SPATHOGLOTTIS PLICATA. 



