house with a high stage on which are Cattleias, Lilias, 
and other Orchids, that shut out much of the light, and 
most of the flowers seemed to prefer the dark, and grow 
close to the ground in the darkest part of the house ; 
also that it blossomed first in the coldest weather, and the 
blossoms lasted for only two days. The heads of flowers 
attain a circumference of three feet, and ripe seeds have 
been produced that germinated and produced young plants. 
Mr. Crawford further succeeded in crossing it with B. 
grandiceps, the result of which is a great improvement on 
grandiceps, the flowers lasting longer than those of the 
parents. : 
The specimen figured here was sent to Kew in March 
last by Mr. Crawford very shortly before his death. Dr. 
Masters describes the tree as being (in 1877) about thirty 
feet high and unbranched for ten feet. A specimen of 
the same plant in the Kew Herbarium is marked as collected 
in Antioquia by Mr. Jervise. 
Descr. A small tree, attaining thirty feet in height in 
Mr. Crawford’s garden, with a crooked trunk. Branches, 
petioles and petiolules clothed with a dense brown tomen- 
tum. Leaves about a foot long; petiole terete, slender ; 
leaflets about five pairs, eight inches long and less, very 
shortly petioluled, from oblong to oblanceolate, contracted 
into a long acuminate point, quite smooth and glabrous ; 
nerves eight to ten pairs. Heads of flowers eight to ten 
inches in diameter, sessile on the trunk towards its base. 
Outer bracts two to three inches broad, rounded, silky 
externally ; inner bracts narrowly spathulate, pubescent, 
longer than the calyces ; bracteoles connate in a two-lobed 
funnel-shaped tube. Calyx one inch long, scarlet ; lobes 
five, lanceolate, free or variously connate. Petals twice as 
long as the calyx, claws very slender, as long as the oblong 
scarlet blade, dorsal two-fid, the others rounded at the 
top. Stamens ten to twelve, two and a half inches long, 
scarlet. Ovary stipitate, very narrowly fusiform, tomen- 
—tose.—J. D. H. | 
Fig. 1, Flower with bracteoles; 2, inner bract; 3, calyx; 4, standard; 5, 
staminal insertion; 6 and 7, anthers; 8, pistil :—al/ enlarged. 
