Tap. 6003. 
BATEMANIA Burtt. 
Native of Costa Rica. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuipeEx.—Tribe Denprobicw § MaAxILLaRied. 
Genus Batemanta, Lindl. ; (Bot. Register, tab. 1714). 
— Baremania Burtii ; subacaulis, foliis sessilibus elongato elliptico-oblongis 
acutis basi subdistiche imbricatis planiusculis carinatis nervis obscuris, 
pedunculis unifloris robustis suberectis, bracteis vaginatis viridibus 
appressis obtusis, floribus amplis 3 poll. diam., sepalis petalisque con- 
similibus late ovatis acuminatis rufo-brunneis maculis ochreis rotundatis, 
petalis basi purpureo pictis, labelli ungue auricula transversa 2-loba 
fimbriata aucto, lamina trulliformi apiculata, basi subcordata, ultra 
medium rubro-fusca maculis saturatioribus conspersa, columna cucullata, 
alis marginibusque erosis. 
Baremania Burtii, Endres 5 Reichb. f. in Gard. Chron. 1872, p. 1099. 
‘The genus Batemania, named by Lindley in 1835 after the 
- distinguished orchidologist James Bateman, F.H.S., consists of - 
_half-a-dozen species of tropical Eastern, South American, and 
‘Spanish-Main plants, as enumerated by Reichenbach in the 
sixth volume of Walper’s “Annales.” Some of these had 
been long known, but previously referred in books or col- 
lections, some to Huntleya, some to Zygopetalum, and some to 
Galeottia. The species here figured is a native of Costa Rica, 
where it was discovered by M. Endres in 1867, and is re- 
garded by Reichenbach as very closely allied to B. meleagris, 
‘Rechb. f. (Bonplandia, vol. iii. p. 217), a native of Brazil, but 
differing in the colour of the flower and form of the curious 
ciliated appendage on the claw of the lip. It isa magnificent 
Orchid, whether as regards the luxuriance of the foliage or 
the form and colour of the flower. I am indebted to Messrs. 
Veitch for the opportunity of figuring it their specimen was 
procured through W. Burnley Hume, Esq. ; 1 flowered in 
August of the present year. 
DECEMBER Ist, 1872. 
