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the bulb, on a short stalk about two inches high. They 

 are best grown in the East India house, either on blocks or 

 in baskets with moss, with a liberal quantity of water at 

 the roots m the growing season. They are propagated by 

 dividing the plants just as they begin to grow. 



Scuticaria Haclicenii. — A beautiful Orchid with pen- 

 dulous foliage. This plant is very much like Steelii; the 

 only difference between the two is, that Hadicenii throws 

 its flowers more erect, and stands one or two inches 

 higher. The colours of the flovs^ers are nearly alike. A 

 very rare plant. 



Scu. Steelii. — This is another handsome plant from 

 Guyana. The foliage of this species is pendulous, three or 

 four feet long. The flowers are yellow, spotted with 

 crimson : it produces its blossoms at different times of the 

 year, lasting a good time in perfection. 



SOBRALIAS. 



There are some handsome varieties belonging to this 

 family. Their colours are brilliant, and flowers large. 

 They are strong, free-growing plants, with evergreen foliage, 

 and produce their flowers out of a spathe, one at a time, 

 from the top of the reedy-like stem : they have as many as 

 six flowers from each spathe ; as soon as one decays another 

 appears. They will grow either in the East India house 

 or the Mexican, and thrive best in pots of a large size, 

 with rough fibrous peat, and about three inches of drainage, 

 with plenty of water at the roots in the growing season ; 

 afterwards keep them much drier. When these plants get 

 too large, turn them out of the pot, and part them, making 

 two or three young plants, which will soon grow and make 

 flowering plants. The following are the best of this 



