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* BATEMÁNNIA Colleyi. 
Colley's Batemannia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncurpgz $ VANDEE. (Introduction to the Natural System 
of Botany, p. 262.) 
BATEMANNIA. Flores ringentes. Sepala patentia, lateralia unguicu- 
lata basi equalia. Petala sepalis latiora, basi obliqua, pedi producto columns 
adnata. Labellum cum columna articulatum, trilobum, cucullatum. Columna 
semiteres, basi elongata, clinandrio marginato. Anthera parva, bilocularis, mem- 
branacea. — Pollinia 2, postice biloba, glandulâ triangulari, caudiculà nulla. 
B. Colleyi. 
Epiphyta. Pseudobulbi ovati, subtetragoni, lucidi, olivacei, subcorru- 
gati, ovi gallinacei magnitudine. Folia 2-3, ohovato-oblonga, plicata, basi 
angustata. Racemus radicalis, pendulus, semipedalis, laxe 5-10-florus. 
Bractex rhombee, striate, cucullate, inflate. Flores pedicellati, ovario pedi- 
cello breviore. Sepala et petala poll. longa, intus fusco-purpurea, extus viridi 
vitta notata, apice quoque viridia; sepalum posterius oblongum obtusiuscu- 
lum : lateralia spatulata divergentia petalis e longiora; petala a bast 
triangulari oblonga, sepalo supremo latiora. Labellum oblongum, ultra me- 
dium disci bidentatum, album, intus lutescens, extus levissime rubescens ; 
lobis rotundatis, serrulatis, lateralibus intermedio subcuneato brevioribus. 
Anthera membranacea, depressa, quadrata, 2-locularis. Rostellum subula- 
tum. Clinandrium marginatum, dentatum. Stigma; rima parva transversa. 
Sent from Demerara to James Bateman, Esq. by Mr. 
Colley, his collector in that country, who has just returned 
from a successful mission with a considerable number of 
epiphytes, which are new to our gardens. 
Mr. Colley states that this plant, when in perfection, 
bears double the number of flowers in the accompanying 
plate. Even in its present state, it is a very handsome 
Species, and extremely different from all genera previously 
* We name this genus in compliment to James Bateman, Esq. of Kny- 
persley, an ardent collector and successful cultivator of Orchideous epiphytes. 
Mr. Colley, after whom the spêcies is called, was Mr. Bateman's collector in 
emerara. 
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