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BASTARD VERVAIN. See Stachytarpheta. 
BASTARD VETCH. See Phaca. 
BASTARD WIND-FLOWER. 
Pseudo-pneumonanthe. - 
BASTARD WOOD-SAGE. Bes Teucrium Pseudo- 
scorodonia. ; Tag 
BAST MATS. See Bass Mats. ; 
BATATAS (its aboriginal name). 
This genus is now referred to Ipomæa. Strong, free-grow- 
ing, greenhouse or stove deciduous twiners. Calyx of five 
sepals; corolla campanulate; stamens inclosed. They are 
of easy culture, only requiring plenty of room to spread, 
and are well adapted for trellis work, or to run up pillars. 
They are all tuberous rooted, and therefore require to be 
kept dry when in a dormant state. A rich, open, loamy 
soil is most suitable. Young cuttings strike readily under 
a hand glass, in heat. 
i nioides (Bi -like).* urple, funnel- 
ry with | egies odinles many Hower, nutant, 
o 
shorter than the petioles. Jw iae “reat hind lobes 
rounded, imbricate. Cayenne, 1B ( (B. M 
Cavanillesii (Cavanilles’).* fl. pale oti A lobes of 
corolla obtuse, crenulated; peduncles one to three-flowered. 
August. Z, quinate; leaflets ovate, entire, unequal. Native 
country unknown, 1815 ; 
See Gentiana 
ORD. Convolvulacee. 
Pr a 
Fic. 208. BATATAS EDULIS, showing Tuber, 
B.. „gants ble).* Sweet Potato. fl, corolla lin, long, white 
purple inside; peduncles, equal in inet to the 
oct d 
petioles, x obei hree to four-flowered. l. variable, 
pitt tae Th. Re Stem creeping, rarely climbing. 
B. glaucifolia (milky oi To ed rolla small, purplish, 
perder an ~~ es. and ovate. N gn A ut semen i podun vig two- 
ves. M. 
on long aor Ae Saree me pey ttate, truncate behind, 
B. hete Na rations -lenved blue; a li 
vappe h three piae at vial i. quinate ui y 
palmate; lobes or or leaflets ovate-spathulate, acute. A aar ge very 
pa ous. ai 1817. 
paniculata (panicled) * d 
ge the petioles, mai ioen ma ch 
e 
Sa oiimi 
bosely panicled. June. J. palmate, five to seven-cleft; lobes 
ovike landbolate òr elliptic, bluntish, » giprely sub-acuminated. 
India, 1799. (G. G. n. s., x., 541.) 
B. sene ensis (Sen: alese). 
fe ag em neonate June. a 
ovate, obtuse, middle one the tegs 
Guinea, 1823. 
B. ve 
nosa (veiny). fl. puple; 
white or purplish, ig 
quinately p: A p 
Stem White, a lo 
E ia umbellate, with an 
ovate-cordate, solitary 1 the base of each pedicel. July. 
l. digitatel ly quinate ; leaflets ‘petiolate, acuminated, quite entire. 
France, 18: 
BATEMANNIA ae. after Mr’ J. Bateman, a 
collector and cultivator of orchids, and author of a 
“Monograph of Odontoglossum,” and other works on orchi- 
daceous plants). ORD. idacee. A small and easily- 
grown genus of dwarf, compact-growing epiphytes, closely 
allied to Mazillaria, but differing from that genus in having 
the anther-bed with a membranous bord They may be 
grown in pots, in a compost of peat and moss, or on blocks 
of wood with moss. They require an intermediate house 
and plenty of water in the growing season. Propagated by 
divisions and offsets. They have generally a free-flower- 
ing habit; but some of the species are not so ornamental 
as many other orchids. 
B. armillata (braceleted). jl. green, white. 1875. (R. X. O. 316.) 
B. Burtii (Burts). 7. red-brown, yellow base, 3in. across; lip 
white, tip rok er chocolate. Autumn, J, elliptic-oblong, or ligulate, 
sub-distichous. Plant bulbless. Costa Rica, 1872. (B. M. 6003.) 
B. Colleyi (Colley’sy fl. as a e A raceme, rising from the 
base of the pseudo-bulbs ; sepals and petals brownish-purple 
within, green without; lip white. Autumn. A. 6in. Demerara, 
1834. (B. R. 1714.) 
B. grandifiora a i -flowered).* fl., flower-spike coming up with 
the young growth, bearing three or four flowers, of curious struc- 
ture ; sepals and petals olive-green, striped with reddish-brown ; 
lip white, with reddish-purple streaks, orange or yellow towards 
the base. Pseudo-bulbs ovate, 3in. or 4in. long, raan hoarna iro 
large, broad, leathery leaves. New Grenada, @. M. .) 
B. Wallisii (Wallis’).* fl., sepals light eaa A outside, 
olive-green to chestnut-brown inside, with some yellow at the 
base ; petals with scarlet ones = kae very base, but otherwise 
coloured like the sepals; lip bla nish, with a brownish 
hue at the anterior part; b Bres slender, corymbose. h. lit. 
Columbia, 1876. 
BATSCHIA. See Lithospermum. 
BAUERA (named after Francis and Ferdinand Bauer, 
German botanical draughtsmen). ORD. Savifragacee. Small 
shrubs, natives of Australia, New Zealand, &c. Flowers 
axillary, solitary, maar Leaves six in ay Whedon 
proximating by threes, and therefore, as it _ Were, | 
and ternate, exstipulate. Easily cultivated in a compost of 
sandy loam and peat, Propagated by cuttings, placed in 
sandy soil, under a glass. These very pretty little green- 
house evergreens flower nearly the whole year through. 
P rubioides, and U int I al or a 
rubioides, ani smaller. 
December. I oblong, ah. iit. New South Wales 
1804. wa B.C. ene 
B. rubizefolia (madder-leaved). Synonymous with B. rubioides. 
B. rubioides (madder- ag fl. pale red, or pink. Ll aone 
late, crenated. k. 1ft. to 2ft, New South Wales, 1793, SYN. 
rubhiæfolia. (A. B. R. 198.) 
BAUHINIA (in honour of John and Caspar Bauhin, 
two famous botanists of the sixteenth century). Moun- 
tain Ebony. ORD. Leguminosæ. Very showy stove ever- 
green shrubs. Flowers racemose ; petals five, spreading, 
oblong, rather unequal, upper one usually distant from the 
rest. Leaves two-lobed, constantly composed of two jointed 
leaflets at the top of the petiole, sometimes nearly free, 
usually joined together, more or less, and with an- 
the recess. They succeed well in a mixture of sand, loam, 
and peat, requiring good drainage and moderately firm 
potting. Propagated by cuttings, which should be taken > 
when the wood is neither very ripe nor very young; the 
leaves must be dressed off, and the cuttings planted in 
sand, under a glass, in moist heat. A 
objects in the tropics, few of the i 
our comparatively sunless skies; those which hitherto have 
succeeded well in Britain are marked with an asterisk. ae 
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