BURLINGTONIA RIGIDA. 
Orchidacee $ Vandeæ. — Gynandria-Monandria. 
CHARACT. GENER. — Perigonii membranacei Burlingtonial 
convoluti öbliqui foliola qu up exteriora | Bot. Reg. sub t. 1927. 
dri guez zia Batema e.) 
Sert. ti KA تست سم‎ t. er 
En eeng? poposit , inter e connata, basi | Por». et Expr. Nor. Gen. 
subsa ده‎ anTA æquilonga, sed 
pauls veda E etia ain des ipee red foliolis CHARACT. SPECI Dr Foliis 2-3 aggregatis, basi 
di jus, Ke dion bilobum < basi brevissime ود و‎ A VE o-lanceolatis; caule ex foliis 
ungue WS D. nostemate pa- 0 HE pseudo- -bulbiformi nto 
e, 1 ۰ 
Br ne KZ to. Gynostema teres spice biloliato; ex eis foliis secundi ur aliu 
cundis ori 
longe clavatum, apice interdum appendicibus duabus وی‎ prio en. hifolins ot sio continuus usque 
Fe sd enc ad meni floribus amplis albo-roseis ; petalis 
des stigm ate utrinque cornuto. P م‎ tubulose connexis, ans maximo bilobato bes i pe- 
er ce Dan Pollinia A caud eps refracta, dito quite n. L, 
apice ay رم‎ a Sich naviculari affixa. Burlintonia rigida e, Sert. Or ^um „t. 2. Pax- 
Herbæ a ha epiphyte agna? 13 TON S Mag of Bot. 1841. p, 193. c 
bose ; منز جیگ‎ basi sn ug mono-diphy 
lis ; floribus racemosis speciost 
Espuicn. Gen. PI. 1456. 
Texte du Magazine of Botany de M. Paxton. 
RIGID STEMMED BURLINGTONIA. 
BURLINGTONIA RIGIDA, 
GENERIC CHARACTER | DO E 
SPECIFIC CHARACTER 
The extraordinary gracefulness of the habit of this plant, and its peculiarly lovely flowers, are 
almost unrivalled even in the tribe to which it belongs, and which is so singularly prolific of elegant 
objects. 
Most Orchidaceæ that are remarkable for their strictly epiphytal character, and for sustaining them- 
selves solely on atmospheric ود‎ receive the popular name of air-plants; b ann is usually a 
and succulence in their stems, leaves, and roots, which foster Ze idea tha bat are 
یه سه‎ EE seeming singularity of the manner in whic 
they are sustained. To no plant does such a notion appear mors inapplicable than to op present 
subject of remark. The smallness of all its parts, and the comparatively gossamer na < 
most efficiently "am the opinion that it is constantly dependent on the air for its existence, and 
render it more like a thing of romance, than an actual member of the vegetable kingdom 
In Messrs. Loddiges’ mole ent gett. where our drawing was prepared last spring, there is 
a specimen of this beautiful plant which has attained a considerable size and perfection; and its mode 
of E which is partly exhibited in our figure, may me deemed worthy of a brief description. 
he plant, consisting of several pseudobulbs, is growing in a pot filled with heath-soil and pots- 
herds, and from ied of the pseudobulbs a long, rigid, wire-like stem ascends, developing a new 
` butb at it sum d from around the base of this bulb a quantity of roots depend, which are 
very We be eg geit a strong thread , of great ege most pleasing diversity of form and direc- 
tion, and a snowy whiteness. Each year another stem a above the last-formed pseudobulb, again 
Fa! a new bulb and its attendant roots at its apex; is and as these dems ei "i io a 
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When the speeimen acquires an age and condition suitable for flowering, the scape is protruded 
from the sheath which envelops the base of the youngest pseudobulbs, and rises pet for four or 
