The Culture of Greenhouse Orchids 



effective un that golden liackgrouiid. Flowers with 

 the young growth in summer. Brazil. 1890. 5.s. 



Sarcodcs (flesh-like).— Very useful and pleasing. 

 Flowers of good size ; sepals and petals chestnut, 

 blotched and tipped with yellow ; lip briglit yellow, 

 with chestnut spots. I have seen it at St. Albans 

 with spikes eight feet long, profusely branched, 

 l)earing many hundred flowers. March to May. 

 Brazil. 1849. 5*. It does better with the 

 Cattleyas. 



Scrratum (saw-toothed round the edges). — Very 

 striking. Chocolate, edged with yellow. The petals 

 curl over, forming a ring, as if for insects to light 

 upon. Like all the species with a very small lip, 

 as One. macranthum, it does not flower readily; but, 

 like the rest of them, its very long spikes, thickly 

 set with bloom, reward our patience. November 

 to January. Peru. 1849. lOs. Gd. 



Sessile (stalkless). — Another of the small-lipped 

 class. Large primrose flowers, speckled at the base 

 with cinnamon. April and May. Mexico. Does 

 better with the Cattleyas. 



S'pluwelatum (scorched). — A large, free-growing 

 species, yellow, splashed with chestnut. April and 

 May. Mexico. 3s. ijd. 



Spilo])teruni. — Vide Seiint-legerianum. 



Spracei (Mr. Spruce, a traveller).— Peculiar for its 



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