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five inches wide and six inches deep ; the sepals and petals 

 are oblong spreading, pale green with a purplish tinge, and 

 the cucullate cordate lip is creamy white, tinged with purple 

 at the tip, the margin deeply and beautifully fringed. It 

 produces its Folitary flowers, which are deliciously fragrant, 

 during the winter months from the top of the bulb, and con- 

 tinues for about two or three weeks in bloom. — Honduras. 



YiG.— But. Mag., t. 4474 ; Bot. Eeg., 1S46, t. 53 ; Flore cles Serves, t. 237. 



Syn. — Bletia Digbyana. 



B. Gibbsiana, WUlUms. — This is a beautiful and distinct 

 species, well worthy of general cultivation. It is an erect 

 plant, belonging to the terete-leaved section, though in the 

 present species the leaves are somewhat broad and very thick. 

 It is a most profuse bloomer, producing three flowers upon 

 each spike, which are large and white, spotted with chocolate. 

 The temperature of the Cattlej'a house suits it best, and it 

 should be potted in peat and sphagnum moss. — Native 

 Country not knoivn. 



B. glauca, Lindleij. — A desirable compact evergreen Orchid, 

 with a slowly creeping rhizome, from which proceed coriaceous 

 oblong retuse glaucous leaves, having a short pseudobulb-like 

 petiole ; a solitary large flower is developed from the leaf 

 axil, and of this the spreading sepals and petals are pale 

 green, and the expanded cordate lip pure white with some 

 pink streaks in the throat. It blooms in February or 

 March, and lasts two or three weeks in perfection. This is 

 found rather difficult to flower in some collections, but it 

 blooms every year if the plant is strong, producing one large 

 flower from a sheath at the top of the pseudobulb. — Mexico 

 and Gnatemala. 



YlG.—Bateman, Orch. Mex. et Guat., t. 16 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4033 ; Bot. Reg., 

 1840, t. 44. 



Syn. — Bletia glatuia. 



B. lineata, Hooker. — The present plant, which is allied to 

 B. acaiilis, is too much neglected by Orchid growers. It has 

 very short cylindrical stems, long, very deep green semiterete 

 tapered leaves, channelled above, and large and very fragrant 

 flowers, with the sepals and petals creamy white, and the large 

 cordate lip pure white. It is a pendulous plant, and requires 

 to be grown on a block, in the Cattleya house. — Gtiatemala ; 

 Central America. 



'EiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4734. 



Syn, — Bletia lineata ; Brassavola Mathenana. 



