Plate XXXV. 



BATEMANNIA 13URT1I. 



A strikingly distinct and effective stove epiphyte, forming n distichous tuft of leaves among which appear the large 

 and remarkable brown and yellow flowers. The plant is ftibcanlcocent The leaves are oblong liguiale 

 acute, distichous, a foot long or more, with roots protruding from between the lowermost, The flowon aw throe 

 inches across, and grow itogly from the leaf-axils on peduncles about half the length of the leaver The sepals 

 and petals are nearly uniform in axe, form, and colour : they niv tri:mpdur obhm;:, arure, the bft*e yellow 

 with some brownish markings; the uppei two-thirds of a rich re<Mi$h.|>rown with brownish-fellow chequered 

 markings the two petal* having in addition n large dark-brown radiating blotch at the l*a*t\ The lip U clawed, 

 trowel-shaped, white in the lower half, dark dull brown with darker spots in fnmt, the claw bearing a InuWQtSO 

 tcmiltUUU tWO*lobed white auricle, cut into incurved setiform dark purple teeth. 'Hie column i* white tipped 

 with green, hooded, with a dorsal keck the margins and narrow* wings jagged. 



Batcuanma BDfiTIi, Endres and Itrichrnhath JiL finrtlenem' Chronicle. 1S7S, 1091*; Hooker fit* Ifotemcul 

 Magazine, t COOS. 



This very remarkable plant, belonging to a genus which wc have not previously had the opportunity to 

 illustrate, b u native of Costa ttica, where it was discovered so long since as June, 1867, by Mr. Endres. 

 At first Professor Rcichcnbnch, to whom specimens were sent for examination, regarded it as a variety of 

 Batemamia meleagm % but the materials subsequently obtained led him to adopt the opinion of its discoverer 

 that il hud full claim to rank as a species. As a garden plant, its great beauty and thorough distinctness of 

 aspect and character will render it welcome to all- 



The plant from which our figure was token, flowered iu 1S72, in the choice and valuable collection of 

 \\ , Burnley Hume, Esq., Wintcrton, to whom we are indebted for the opportunity of introducing it amongst 

 our illustrations of select orchids, llithcrto the plant would seem to have formed no pscudobulbs or stems. 

 The leaves arc arranged in a distichous manner* and vary from twelve lo fifteen inches in length, and from 

 one to two inches in breadth- The Bowers are produced singly, upon creel peduncles, and measure about 

 three inches in diameter; they arc thick and fleshy in texture, attractive in colouring, and last for a 



considerable time in full beauty. 



rite species which constitute this genus have from time to time been placed in other genera, such as 

 lluniltya, ^opctahm t ci^ and from whidi indeed they do not differ materially in general appearance 

 The majority of them succeed best under cool treatment ; but the species now before us, which is u native of 



