GLEANINGS AND ORIGINAL MEMORANDA. 
569. BunLINGTONIA DE- 
CORA. Lemaire. (alias B. 
ameena Planchon in Hort.) 
A beautiful epiphyte from 
Brazil. Flowers rose-co- 
loured spotted with red, and 
a white lip. Introduced 
by M. de Jonghe, of Brus- 
sels. (Fig. 278.) 
B. decora; pseudobulbis compressis ovatis mono- 
phyllis, foliis arcem subundulatis recurvantibus, 
3—5-floris, sepalis petalisque glee 
bus acutis lateralibus vix semiconnatis, labello multà 
longiore bilobo dilatato basi appendice lacero Er 
EAN — utrinque aucto, calcare conico rient 
sequantibus, ge cornubus glabris staminodiis plus dupló 
brevioribus.” — 
This ry P Rm epiphyte has been lately figured by 
M. Van Houtte in his Flore des Serres, with a note by 
M. Planchon, a which the following is the substance :— 
Introduced from the province of St. Paul's, in Brazil, by 
M. Libon, the collector for M. de Jonghe, this flowered 
in May, 1851, with M. Makoy, when it was provisionally 
petals are deep rose-colour , spotted with small irregular 
crimson specks ; the lip, which is twice as long as the 
speckled appendage vs each side of the base. It seems 
to prefer a mixture 0 f sphagnum, rotten willow-wood, 
and broken potsherds, in which it succeeds perfectly. 
suspended in a basket of copper wire, It likes a hot 
damp atmosphere while growing, and a good season of 
rest, obtained by lowering the temperature, and diminish- 
in 
لمعه ماه سح يد‎ it with a B. obtusifolia, very slightly defined in the Sertum Orchidaceum, under t. 36; 
and it is indeed a poar of the same division of the genus, us, characterised by the column bearing a pair of long hairy 
ears (staminodia). B. obtusifolia is in reality very near B. rigida, from which it only differs in the ears being 
blunter and longer, "m leaves smaller, narrower, more id and tapering to the base, the flowers 1 and the 
