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firm-textm-ecl flowers, the long narrow sepals and petals deep 

 yellow with purple-brown blotches at the base, and the lip 

 brighter yellow spotted over the disk and central portion, half 

 as long as the sepals, and marked on the disk with an oblong- 

 ligulate orange-colouied crest. It flowers in May and June, 

 and lasts about three weeks in blossom. — / New Grenada . 



Fib.— Orchid Album, iv. t. 159, 



B. Gireoudiana, Rchb. f. et Warsc. — A very handsome 

 species of a genus that is rather neglected by Orchid-growers, 

 and a plant of easy culture and good robust habit. Its pseudo- 

 bulbs, are stout oblong two-edged ; the leaves are oblong acute 

 with a cuneate base, of a light green colour, and the scapes 

 are two feet high, bearing racemes of many flowers, which are 

 large, bright yellow spotted with red. — Costa Rica. 



FiG.—Xenia Orch., i. t. 32. 

 Syn. — Oncidium Gireoudianum, 



B. guttata, Lindley. — A very pretty species, considered by 

 some botanists to be synonymous with B. WraijcB and a 

 mere variety of B. viacidata. It produces its flowers on 

 spikes two to three feet long ; the sepals and petals yellowish 

 green blotched with brown, and the broad lip yellow spotted 

 with brown ; it blooms from May to August, and continues 

 flowering for about two months. — Guatemala. 



FiG.—Bot. Mag., t. 4003. 



B. Keiliana, Fidib. f. — A very distinct plant of dwarf 

 compact growth, remarkable for its boat-shaped bracts, 

 longer than the ovaries. The flowers, which grow in a loose 

 many-flowered raceme, have the sepals and petals at first 

 yellow, and then turning to a beautiful brownish orange, 

 cinnabarine when dried ; the lip being whitish. This plant suc- 

 ceeds well in the Cattleya house. — New Grenada : St. Martha. 

 Syn. — Brassia cinnaviomea, fide Rchb, ; Oncidium Keilianum. 



B. Lanceana, LindJey. — A free-flowering Orchid, blooming 

 at difierent times of the year, and bearing yellow fragrant 

 blossoms lightly spotted with brown, which last three weeks in 

 perfection. It has ovate-oblong pseudobulbs, broadly lance- 

 olate striated leaves, and long racemes of flowers, the peduncle 

 or scape springing from the base of the bulb. There are two 

 varieties of this plant, one named maerostachya much better 

 than the other, having larger and brighter coloured flowers, — 

 Guiana : South Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 3577 ; Id. t. 8794 (var,) ; Bot. Reg., t. 1754. 



SXN. — Oncidium suavtolens. 



