Orchids for everyone . e pretty, borne in drooping spikes rather less thana foot long. The best are R. decora, with white flowers,sometimes pale rose, spotted with red, and a white lip; thishas ascending rhizomes, and is best grown against a FRAGRANS, white, with yellow throat, very fragrant;R, PUBESCENS, white and yellow ; R. secunda, rosy pink, withdarker lip, one of the prettiest. SACCOLABIUM The Saccolabiums are tropical epiphytal plants, chiefly fromIndia, Burmah, and the Malay Peninsula. They have a Vanda-like habit, but are smaller, and range from a few inches up to afoot or so
Orchids for everyone . e pretty, borne in drooping spikes rather less thana foot long. The best are R. decora, with white flowers,sometimes pale rose, spotted with red, and a white lip; thishas ascending rhizomes, and is best grown against a FRAGRANS, white, with yellow throat, very fragrant;R, PUBESCENS, white and yellow ; R. secunda, rosy pink, withdarker lip, one of the prettiest. SACCOLABIUM The Saccolabiums are tropical epiphytal plants, chiefly fromIndia, Burmah, and the Malay Peninsula. They have a Vanda-like habit, but are smaller, and range from a few inches up to afoot or so in height; they should be grown in the same way asthe Aerides and Vandas, in a warm, moist atmosphere. Theflowers are not large, but they are carried in rather dense,pendulous spikes that are produced from the axils of the best are S. ampullaceum, rosy carmine ; S. bellinum, fleshyflowers, rather large for the family, yellow, spotted with purple,lip white and yellow, with purple spots; S, curvifolium, a foot. o2 ORCHIDS OF LESSER VALUE 199 high, flowers orange-red; S. giganteum, more than a foothigh, flowers white, spotted with purple, lip deep violet-purple;S. MiNiATUM, small flowers, orange-red; S. violaceum, a foot ormore high, flowers white with violet-purple spots, and violet-purplelip. SCHOMBURGKIA The Schomburgkias are strong growers, and need the sametreatment as Cattleyas. They do not flower with any degree ofregularity, and therefore are not popular or valuable. The flowersare of moderate size, and carried, several together, in small Lyonsii is white and purple, with yellow margin to the TiBiciNis, the best known species, has purple-brown, undulatesepals and petals, and the lip is white, yellow and purple. SCUTICARIA The two species of Scuticaria are remarkable for their long,pendulous, fleshy, terete leaves, and fleshy, short stemmed flowers,three inches across. They should be fixed to a block of wood andsuspended in the stove, though S. H
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