Schlimmia
(named in compliment to M. Schlim, one of M. Linden's plant-collectors). ORD. Orchideae. Three species have been referred to this genus; they are closely-related, stove, epiphytal Orchids, natives of the Columbian Andes. Flowers rather large, fleshy, few in a raceme, shortly pedicellate; posterior sepal free, concave-carinate; lateral ones very broad, connate with the foot of the erect column; petals narrower, spreading at apex; lip variously lobed, the apex reclining on the foot of the column; pollen masses two; bracts oblong; scapes erect or recurved, simple, few-sheathed. Leaf coriaceous, contracted into the petiole. Pseudobulbs oblong, somewhat fusiform, one-leaved. Two of the species have been introduced. They should be grown in a pot with good drainage, and placed in the Cattleya house. S. jasminodora (Jasmine-scented). fl. white and very fragrant; dorsal sepal linear, erect; petals reflexed; lip fleshy, shorter than the column, and articulated with it, with three knobs near the foot of the column, another in the middle of its length, and a fifth, which is concave, at its extremity, which is prolonged into a thin, trowel-shaped limb; scape 1ft. high, bearing three secund flowers. l. oval, long-stalked. Pseudo-bulbs long and slender. New Grenada, 1852. (L.& P.F.G.iii.p.115.) S. trifida (three-cleft). fl. having a delicious perfume, between those of Jasmine and Bergamot; dorsal sepal turned down; wards; lateral ones waxy-white, with a few purple spots inside; petals linear, acute, bent outwards; lip having a pandurate hypochil, trifid at apex, white, marked with rich orange; peduncle lateral, drooping, deep purple, bearing a one-sided raceme of about four flowers. l. oblong, acute. Pseudo-bulbs elongate-ovate, clustered. New Grenada, 1877. (G.C.n.s., vii.141.)