Tas. 4784. 
BARKERIA ELEGANS. 
Elegant Barkeria. 
Nat. Ord. OncHIDEZ.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Sepala et petala equalia, libera, membranacea, patentissima. 
. Labellum planum, integerrimum, nudum, (cuneatum cum apiculo) column ad- 
pressum. Columna petaloidea. Anthera 4-locularis, carnosa, septorum margi- 
nibus membranaceis. Podlinia 4, caudiculis totidem ligulatis reflexis, per paria 
connatis.—Herbee epiphyte, caulibus fusiformibus carnosis. Folia angusta, mem- 
branacea, nervosa. Pedunculi longi, graciles, squamati, terminales, apice racemosi. 
Flores magni, conspicui, nutantes. Lindl. 
BarkeErta elegans ; foliis lanceolatis, racemo paucifloro, sepalis petalisque late 
ovato- seu obovato-lanceolatis acutiusculis, labello obovato obtusissime retuso 
basi callo oblongo medio brevi-trilamellato, columna late spathulata peta- 
loidea. 
Barkerra elegans. Knowles and Westcott, Floral Cab. 2. p. 7. cum Ic. 
A less showy species, for the flowers are fewer and smaller, than 
the B. spectabilis, given in our Tab. 4094 ; but each individual 
blossom is very delicate and beautiful, and the form of the lip of 
the petals and sepals and column is quite different. The present 
was indeed the first discovered species, and upon which the genus — 
was founded, exhibiting the very petaloid column, which is scarcely 
of that character in B. spectabilis. It is a native of the same 
country (Mexico), and was introduced by G. Barker, Esq., of 
Springfield. We are indebted to Messrs. J ackson, of Kingston, 
for the beautiful specimen here figured, which flowered in March. 
Descr. Stem, rather than pseud: -bulb, a span and more 
long (when it passes into the peduncle), clustered, sheathed with 
the leaves of the rather distant foliage, spindle-shaped, striated. 
Leaves nearly distichous, remote, with long sheathing bases, ob- 
long, subacute, spreading, costate, but nerveless. Peduncele twice 
as long as the stem, terminal, solitary, slender, green, blotched 
with purple, sheathed for the greater part of its length with 
MAY Ist, 1854. : ie 
