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* BATEMANNIA CoUeyi. 



Colley^s Batemannia. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orchide^ § Vande^. (Introduction to the Natural System 

 of Botany, p. 262.) 



BATEMANNIA. Flores ringentes. Srpala •^a.tentvA, lateralia unguicu- 

 lata basi a^qnalia. Petala. sepalis latiora, basi obliqua, pedi producto columnae 

 adnata. Lahellum cum columna articulatum, trilobum, cucullatum. Culumna 

 semlteres, basi elongata, clinandrio marginato. Anthera parva, bilocularis, mem- 

 branacea. Pollinia 2, postice biloba, glaudula triangulari, candicula nulla. 



B. Colleiji. 



Epiphyta. Pseudobulbi ovati, subtetragonl, lucidi, olivacei, suhcorru' 

 gati, ovi gullinacei magnitudine. Folia 2-3, ohovnto-ol>longa, plicntn, basi 

 angustata. Racemus radicalis, pendulus, spmipedalix, laxe 5-\0-Jlorus. 

 ^vpiCteoi rhombece, sfriatce, cucullatcp, inflatce. Flores pedicellati, ovaxlo pedi- 

 cello breviore. Sepala et petala poll, longa, intus fusfG-puipnrea, extus viridi 

 vitta notata, npice quoque viridia ; sepalum posterius oblongnm ohtusiuscu- 

 lum : lateralia spatulata divergentia petalis paulo longioru ; petala a basi 

 triangulari oblonga, sepala supremo latiora. Labellum oblongum, ultra me- 

 dium disci bidentatnm, album, intus lutescens, extus levissime rubescens ; 

 lobis rotundatis, serrulatis, lateralibus intermedia subcunenta hreviaribus. 

 Anthera membranacea, depressa, quadrata, 1-lncnlaiis. Rostellum subula- 

 tum. Clinandrium marginatum, dcntatum. Stigma; rima paria transversa. 



Sent from Demerara to James Bateman, Esq. by Mr, 

 Colle)^, his collector in that country, who has just returned 

 from a successful mission with a considerable number of 

 epiphytes, which are new to our gardens. 



Mr. Colley states that this plant, when in perfection, 

 bears double the number of flowers in the accompanying 

 plate. Even in its present state, it is a very handsome 

 species, and extremely difterent from all genera previously 



* We name this genus in compliment to James Bateman, Esq. of Kny- 

 persley, art ardent collector and successful cultivator of Orchideous epiphytes. 

 Mr. Colley, after whom the species is called, was Mr Bateman's collector in 

 Demerara. 



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