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THE ORCHID REVIEW. 



SCUTICARIA STEELEI. 



Scuticaria Steelei is a very striking Orchid, having long, whip-like 

 foliage, which sometimes attains a length of three to four feet, while its 

 flowers, which are borne on short pedunces from the rhizome, are very 

 handsome, being light yellow, strongly blotched and barred with red 

 brown. The annexed figure of a plant which flowered in the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Glasnevin, shows its general character, and is reproduced 

 from a photograph taken by Mr. Leo Farmar. The species has been 

 known since 1837, wnen it flowered in the collection of John Moss, Esq., 



Fig. 21. Scuticaria Steelei. 



of Otterspool, near Liverpool, and was figured in the Botanical Magazine 

 ( T - 3573), under the name of Maxillaria Steelei. It had been introduced 

 from Demerara in the previous year by Mr. Matthew Steele, after whom it 

 was named. It afterwards became the type of the genus Scuticaria. 

 Messrs. Schomburgk afterwards found it in their exploration of British 

 Guiana, growing on trunks of trees on the banks of the Rivers Essequibo 

 and Demerara, and flowering in June and July. Although large quantities 



