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best material for potting. They should be placed in the 

 Cattleya house, with a good supply of water in the growing 

 season, and be shaded from the sun. 



B. Beaumotltii, Rckb. f. — A pretty dwarf-growing plant, with 

 pyriform tetragonal pseudobulbs, plicated cuneate-oblong light 

 green leaves, and erect one or two-flowered peduncles; the 

 flowers are two inches in diameter, light green marked 

 throughout with longitudinal stripes of pale olive brown, the 

 lip white with light lilac-purple dots and streaks, trifid, the 

 semioblong toothed side lobes incurved, and bearing on the 

 disk between them about seven long parallel acute crests. — 

 Brazil: Bahia. 



Tig. — Xenia Orch., iii. t. 215. 



Syn. — Stenia Beaumontii ; Galeottia Beaumontii. 



B. Burtii, Endr. et Rchb. f. — This remarkable and beauti- 

 ful plant, which is almost stemless, has leaves which measure 

 a foot in length, and from two to two and a half inches in 

 breadth, and are of a dark green colour. The peduncles are 

 solitary, radical, erect, one-flowered, and the flowers are three 

 inches across, yellow in the centre, the sepals and petals tri- 

 angular oblong, reddish brown with brownish yellow chequered 

 spots, the two petals having in addition a large dark brown 

 radiating blotch at the base ; the basal part of the stalked 

 trowel-shaped lip is white, the apex dark brown ; the claw 

 bearing a transverse semilunar two-lobed white auricle, cut 

 into incurved setiform dark purple teeth. It has the 

 peculiarity of throwing the roots out from between the bottom 

 leaves. This species was first flowered in the collection of 

 the late W. B. Hume, Esq., of Winterton, Yarmouth. — Costa 

 Rica. 



'FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6003 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 101 ; Warner, Sel. Orch. 

 PI, ii. t. 35. 



B; grandiflora, Rchh. f. — This extremely curious and very 

 pretty Orchid was introduced some quarter of a century ago, 

 but is not often to be met with. It has ovate pseudobulbs 

 some three or four inches long, bearing two large broadly 

 lanceolate leathery leaves. The peduncle comes up with the 

 young growth, bearing a raceme of three or four flowers of 

 curious structure ; the sepals, of which the lateral ones are 

 much the smaller, and the spreading petals, are oHve green 

 striped with reddish brown ; the lip is white, with reddish 



