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purple streaks, and toothed margin and veins ; the basal part 

 orange-yellow with red streaks, developed into a semicircular 

 frill or ruff with sharp-pointed teeth in the middle, and having 

 two acute toothed white side lobes. — New Grenada : 4,000 ft. 

 elevation, therefore not a cool Orchid. 



¥lQ.—Bot. Mag., t. 5567 ; Bateman, 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t, 172. 

 Syn. — Galeottia grandiflora. 



B. Meleagris, Echb.f. — A beautiful and interesting species, 

 having a short erect stem, with the broadly-lanceolate 

 leaves a foot long arranged in two close opposite rows ; the 

 peduncle is axillary, bearing one flower three to four inches 

 in diameter, of which the sepals and petals are ovate acumi- 

 nate, broad at the base, tessellated, pale yellow on the basal 

 half and purplish brown upwards ; the two lateral sepals 

 folded inwards on the inner margin at the base. The lip is 

 about half the size of the petals, similar in form, but with a 

 distinct claw, white tipped with purplish brown, and having 

 at the base of the claw a crescent- shaped plate, fringed with 

 long stiff yellowish hairs. It is a scarce Orchid, blooming in 

 June and July, and lasts a long time in beauty. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1839, 1. 14 ; Maund, Hot., iii. t. 1-16 ; Xenia Orch., i. t. 6Q, 

 figs. 1, 2. 



Syn. — Huntley a Meleagris. 



B. Wallisii, Rckh. f. — This showy plant was at first con- 

 sidered to be only a variety of B. Burtii, but has since been 

 established as a distinct species. It has a running rhizome, 

 which sometimes grows up 40 ft. high. The flowers are light 

 greenish yellow outside, greenish brown inside, yellow at the 

 base of the sepals, but having scarlet stripes at the base of 

 the petals ; lip greenish with a brownish tint at the apex, the 

 bristles of the callus also being greenish. The lateral sepals 

 are nearly four inches long, and broad in proportion. It 

 flowers during the summer months. — Costa liica. 



B. Wallisii major, iic/ii./.— This magnificent variety is a 

 perfect giant, the flowers measuring as much as five and a 

 half inches in diameter. It was first flowered by Sir Trevor 

 Lawrence, Bart., M.P., in September, 1883, and is wonder- 

 fully distinct and handsome in appearance. The rhizomes 

 are creeping, and the leaves distichous. The sepals and petals 

 are ovate-lanceolate acuminate, white at the base, and of a rich 

 chestnut brown in the upper part, having a distinctly tessellated 

 appearance, caused through the veins being very prominent 



