Tap. 4834. 
BURLINGTONIA pecora. 
Neat Burlingtonia. 
Nat. Ord. OrncuipEm.—GyNANDRIA MoNnaANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. Perianthium membranaceum, convolutum, obliquum. Sepala m- 
guiculata, labello breviora, basi a petalis distincta; Jateralia basi concava, con- 
nata, labello supposita. Petala unguiculata, labello parallela, sepalis longitudine — 
eequalia, sed latiora. Ladellum unguiculatum, bilobum, basi cornutum vel muti- — 
cum, cum columna parallelum, apice dilatatum, ungue canaliculato, lamellato. — 
Columna teres, longe clavata, nunc apice appendicibus duabus coloratis aucta ; 
clinandrio dorsali, stigmate utrinque cornuto. Anthere uniloculares. Pollinia 
2, postice excavata, caudicule subulate elastice adnata.—Herbe epiphyte, 
pseudobulbis 1-2-phyllis, basi foliatis. Lindl. 
Burtineronta decora; caulibus elongatis gracilibus hic inde proliferis, pseudo- 
bulbis ovatis compressis monophyllis, sepalis petalisque (albis roseo-macu- 
latis) acutis, labelli ungue sepalis petalisque longiore, caleare integro, co- 
lumna apice appendicibus 2 faleatis erectis pilosis aurita. 
Burrneronia decora. “Lemaire, Jardin Fleuriste, v. 2. Jan. 1852, ¢. 188.” 
Lindl. et Pact. Fl. Gar. v. 3. p. 100 (with a woodcut, copied, we presume, 
JSrom a continental figure). 
BURLINGTONIA ameena. “ Planchon in Hort.” 
For the opportunity of figuring this very pretty Orchideous 
plant, we are also indebted to the kindness of Mr. Jackson. 
It was received by him from Paris, and we find a woodcut of it 
among the “gleanings and original memoranda” of Lindley and 
Paxton’s ‘Flower Garden,’ accompanied by some observations, 
from which we learn that it has been lately figured by Van 
Houtte in his ‘Flore des Serres’ (we presume, under the name 
given by M. Planchon,) as well as by M. Lemaire ; and further, 
that “it was introduced from the province of St. Paul's, in 
Brazil, by M: Libou, the collector for M. de Jonghe; that this 
flowered in May, with Mr. Makoy, when it was named #. decora, 
under which name it is mentioned in various trade-catalogues, 
and afterwards published by M. Lemaire.” —We find it difficult _ 
in words to distinguish this, specifically, from the B. rigida, — 
' FEBRUARY lst, 1855. 
