A.yn THEIR MAXAGEMENT. 485 



Stenoglottis. 



5. longifolia {Hook./.). — From S. /niii'ria/a this species differs 

 in having green, unspotted leaves, din. long, and flower-scapes 

 i^ft. high, bearing a dense raceme of deep mau\e-pin-ple flowers, 

 which are twice as large as those of .S. /i/iil'nata, and ha\e five 

 instead of three lobes in the lip. It is a iirett}-, free-flowering, 

 easily-cultivated Orchid, which may be grown along with 

 Odontoglossuins. The flowers remain fresh about a month. 

 Introduced from Natal in iSSS. (B. M., t. 71S6.) 



STENORRHYNCHUS. This is now included under 

 Spiranthes. 



TAINIA. 



Blume'.s name for a genus of warm-house, terrestrial 

 Orchids of the tribe Epidcin/rcie, iiati\-es r)f the East Indies, 

 South China, and the ?ilala\-an Archipjelago. It is from 

 taiiiia, a band or fillet; in allusion to the shape of the 

 lip. Flowers pedicellate, scattered, rather large or 

 -mediocre; sepals and petals narrow, slightly acute or 

 long-acuminate ; lip erect ; column rather long ; pollen- 

 masses eight ; scape florid, tall, leafless, few-sheathed at 

 the base ; raceme terminal, simple. Stems at length 

 thickened into pseudo-bulbs. The species require similar 

 culture to that ad\'ised for Calauthe ; but the}' are rarely 

 found outside botanic collections. Aiiiia is synon\'mous 

 with this Gcenus. 



TETRAMICRA. 



This small genus of epiph\-tal Orcliids belongs to the 

 tribe t pidendrea. The name gi\-en b\- Lindley is from 

 tetra, four, and micros, small ; in allusion to the four small 

 di\'ision3 of the anther. Flo\\-ers mediocre, pedicellate ; 

 sepals and petals sub-equal, few, spreading ; lip affixed to 

 the base of the column, free, spreading, the lateral lobes 

 shortly clawed, the middle one broad, entire ; column erect, 

 broadly two-winged above or from the base ; raceme 

 simple, loose ; peduncle terminal, elongated, slender, rigid. 

 Leaves linear, fleshy, semi-terete, or very short and thick. 

 Stems leafy, scarcely thickened, not pseudo-bidbous. The 



