DESCRIPTIVE LIST. \6f 



Batemania. Lindley. Epiphyte. 



Dedicated to James Bateman. 



C. Batemania Beaumontii. Para. 



A dwarf-growing plant, with light green foliage, flowers 

 large, light green marked with brown. Known also as 

 Gakottia, which see. 



A. Batemania Burtii. Costa Rica . B. M., 6003. 



Fl. Mag., 2, 101. 



War. Orch., 2, 35. 



A very showy and rare plant, closely allied to Bate- 

 mania meleagris. It is a magnificent Orchid, both in lux- 

 uriance of foliage and beauty of flower. Sepals and 

 petals reddish brown with yellow spots and bases; lip 

 white and brownish purple, with curious ciliated appen- 

 dage. Flowers three inches in diameter on single stems. 



C. Batemania Colleyi. Demerara . . . B. M., 3818. 



B. R., 1714. 



Flowers purple inside, dashed with green on the out- 

 side j the lip is white marked with purple and red. 



B. Batemania grandiflora. New Granada. 



B. M., 5567. 



Bat 2d Cen., 172. 



A very pretty species. The flower-spike comes up with 

 the young growth, bearing several green and brown flow- 

 ers, with a white lip with orange base. 



A. Batemania meleagris. Brazil . . Reich. Xen., i, 66. 



Maund, Bot, 3, 146. 

 B. R., 1839, J 4- 



