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receive air every day during their season of growth. The 

 Mexican house will be the most suitable place for them, and 

 during their season of growth a good supply of water — twice 

 a day in summer will not be too much for them, but during 

 their season of rest very little water will suffice — only enough 

 to keep their stems or bulbs from shrivelling, about two or 

 three times a week. They should be suspended from the 

 roof, near the glass, where they can receive plenty of light 

 and a good supply of sun. 



B. Cyclotella, Rchb.f. — A very beautiful plant, with short 

 leafy stems as thick as a quill, distichous ligulate-oblong 

 acute leaves, and a terminal raceme of very showy flowers, 

 which have deep magenta sepals and petals, and a broad emargi- 

 nate lip of the same rich magenta round the margin, the central 

 portion being white. It is a deciduous species, and blooms 

 in February and March, the plant continuing for six weeks in 

 bloom. — Mexico. 



YiG.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 148, 



BARKERIA ELEGANS. 



B. 



Knowles and Westc. — A splendid species, of 



which the leaves are lanceolate, and the erect racemes of 

 flowers, few in number, are produced during the winter season. 

 The sepals and petals are dark rose, the hp is whitish, 

 broadly obovate, having on the disk an oblong callus ending 

 in three elevated lines, this being covered by the large 



