Plate 317. 

 BEPvTOLONIA GUTTATA. 



The frequenters of the Metropolitan fiower shows during the 

 past season cannot have foiled to admire the very beautiful 

 plant which forms the subject of our Plate, so admirably ren- 

 dered by Mr. Andrews ; and also one of still more recent 

 introduction, Bertolonia margaritacea, as they have been fre- 

 quently exhibited by jNIessrs. Bull, Veitch, and others, to the 

 former of whom we are indebted for the opportunity of 

 figuring it. 



Bertolonia (juttata was first exhibited by the Messrs. Veitch, 

 and we learn from the ' Botanical Magazine ' (in which publi- 

 cation it was figured, tab. 5524), that it was sent to the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens at Kew, as a native of ^ladagascar, but that it 

 is not so, having been found at St. Sebastian, in Brazil, by the 

 late Mr. Fox, and also in the province of St. Paul, South Brazil, 

 by Mr. "\^'eir, it is therefore to be regarded as a Brazilian 

 plant, requiring a stove temperature, but at the same time 

 somewhat impatient of damj); it will re([uirc, therefore, to be 

 somewhat protected in tliis respect. 



The leaves of this very charming plant are dark green above 

 and of a brownish-purple b(>neatli, their characteristic feature 

 bcini;- the rows of beautiful rose-coloured spots (in U. mar- 

 (jHfliaccAi pure white), which seem not as if they formed part of 

 the leaf, but were set on " studded," as the ' Botanical Magazine ' 

 describes them, " with rubies," but they are not of quite so 

 deep a colour, being rather of a i)ale pink, 'i'liere seems to 

 be some dift"erence of opinion as to tlie Hower ; in the plant 

 figured, there was only the single flower, situated in the axil 



