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which they should be kept nearly dry at the roots. They will grow 

 well in either the East Indian or BraAlian house. These plants are 

 subject to the attacks of the red spider and the .thrips, to prevent which 

 the leaves should be well syringed with clean tepid water, whenever the 

 weather is hot and dry. 



S. ANIESIANA, Hort — This chaste and beautiful plant was exhibited, by 

 Messrs. Low & Co., before the Boyal Horticultural Society, on April 25th, 1893, 

 when it received a first-class certificate. The fiowers are very large, of a pure 

 porcelain white and delicioiisly fragrant. It is named in honour of the late 

 Hon. P. L. Ames, of Boston, U.S.A. — Native coimfnj not stated. 



Fig.— Journ. of Sort., 1893, xxvii. p. 17."., .f. 26; Gard. Mag., 1893, p. 352 

 (woodcut). 



S. AUREA.— See S. Wakdii aurea. 



S. BUCEPHALUS, Lindl. — A beautiful species, certainly one of the richest 

 coloured in the whole family. It has small ovate ribbed pseudobulbs, each 

 prodiacing one stalked oblong acuminate plicate leaf, and a deflexed raceme of 

 several large showy flowers, which are of a, rich tawny-orange, with large blood- 

 red blotches, and in which the hypochil is boat-shaped, the mesochil is bicornute, 

 and the epichil is roundish ovate and cuspidate. Dr. Lindley makes two 

 varieties, one with pale rich yellow flowers, with purple dots and small blotches 

 everywhere except on the hypochil ; and the other (GUTTATA) with the sepals, 

 petals, and hypochil deep apricot, with four brown blotches on the hypochil 

 and also on each petal. The fiowers are usually produced about the month of 

 August ; and, like most of those in this family, they emit a powerful and 

 fragrant odour.- — Peru; Ecuador. 



Fm.—Bot. Beg., 1845, t. 24 ; Bat. Mng., t. ,J278 ; Moorr, III. Orclt. PI. (^Stanlwpea), 

 t. 2 ; Humh. et Sonp. PI. ^quin., t. 27. 



Syk. — Epidendrum grandiflorum ; Anguloa grandiflora. 



S. DEVONIENSIS, Lindl. — This beautiful species has ovate ribbed pseudo- 

 bulbs, lanceolate plaited shortly stalked pale green leaves, and two-flowered 

 peduncles. The flowers, which arc produced during July and August, are 

 extremely sweet-scented, pale creamy-yellow, thickly blotched with irregular 

 spots of deep crimson-purple, the markings on the petals and dorsal sepal 

 taking the form of bold transverse bars near the base ; the lip is whitish spotted 

 with purple, the hypochil sub-globose, with a deep purple stain over the lower 

 half, the mesochil short two-horned, and the epichil obtuse-angled, rhomboid, 

 obsoletely three-toothed at the end. It is distinguished from S. tigrina, which 

 it resembles, by its slightly divided epichil. — Peru. 



FlO. — Sertmn Orcli., t. 1 ; Flore des Sn'iv.^, t. 974 ; Puydt, Zes OrrJi., t. 42. 



S. EBURNEA, Lindl. — ^An old and very handsome species with ivory-white 

 flowers, except a few purple markings on the lip ; lip oblong, not constricted at 

 the middle ; hypochil two-horned near the base ; epichil ovate oblorlg obtuse ; 

 mesochil twice as long, solid, plano-convex, truncated and bidentate in front • 



