. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 72 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. Racemes long, pendulous, and very dense, having the appearance of a fox's brush. The flowers are waxy-white, dotted with violet. Lip small, rich violet. The var. majus produces vevy long racemes, and large flowers ; other forms are Dayi, Russellianus, splendcns, &c. &c. Summer and autumn months. Java and the Philippine Islands. S. curvifolium.—Leaves thick and coriaceous, narrowly strap-shaped, some ten inches long, and pale green. Raceme erect, dense, rather shorter than the leaves. Flowers rich orange-scarlet i
. Cassell's popular gardening. Gardening. 72 CASSELL'S POPULAR GARDENING. Racemes long, pendulous, and very dense, having the appearance of a fox's brush. The flowers are waxy-white, dotted with violet. Lip small, rich violet. The var. majus produces vevy long racemes, and large flowers ; other forms are Dayi, Russellianus, splendcns, &c. &c. Summer and autumn months. Java and the Philippine Islands. S. curvifolium.—Leaves thick and coriaceous, narrowly strap-shaped, some ten inches long, and pale green. Raceme erect, dense, rather shorter than the leaves. Flowers rich orange-scarlet in colour. There is a var. luteum, in which the flowers are a plain rich yellow. Spring months. British Burmah. S. giganteum.— As its name im- plies, this is a large growing plant; leaves broadly li- gulate, thick and fleshy, erose at the apex, about twelve inches long and three broad, deep green. Racemes pendulous, as long or longer than the leaves. Flowers large (for the genus), and sup- ported upon long- foot-stalks, which give the whole raceme a very thick tail-like ap- pearance. Sepals and petals waxy-white, the latter slightly spotted with lilac. Lip violet, shading to lilac. Flowers very fragrant, lasting long in per- fection. British Burmah. S. guttatum.—Leaves lorate, channelled, thick and fleshy in texture, truncate at the apex, about a foot long, and deep green. Racemes twelve to eighteen inches long, cylindrical, and dense. Flowers waxy- white, spotted and dotted with purple. There are several varieties, the differences being chiefly the intensity of colour in the flowers. Summer months. Various parts of India and Java. S. guttatum, var. Holfordianum.—This is such a grand form of the species that it must not be omitted in this enumeration; indeed, it may, with justice, be considered the finest of the section, which includes Blumei, guttatum, retusum, and prcemorsum. Leaves broadly strap-shaped, channelled, thick and leathery in texture, erose at the apex, abo
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