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of the house ; the roots require a good supply of water. 

 They are propagated by separating the pseudobulbs. 



B. auricomuni, Lindley. — In this plant the pseudobulbs 

 are an inch and a half high, the leaves deciduous, and the 

 flowers small, light green, in a spike ten inches long, drooping 

 like a Pholidota ; they are white and deliciously fragrant and 

 are produced in January. — India. 



B. barbigerum, Lindley . — A curious and charming dwarf - 

 growing plant, with dark green oblong fleshy leaves, and 

 small orbicular pseudobulbs, from the base of which grows 

 the peduncle, supporting a raceme of some eight to ten 

 flowers. The sepals are narrow, greenish brown ; the petals 

 minute, not apparent, but the lip is most extraordinary ; it 

 is a long narrow yellowish body, with two deep purple 

 beards of fine hairs at the point, and from its tip a brush of 

 long purple threads, so delicate that the least disturbance 

 of the air sets them in motion. Besides all this, the lip is so 

 loosely attached at the base as to be moved with the slightest 

 breath, which gives it the appearance of a living thing. It 

 lasts long in bloom. — Sierra Leone. 



YlG.—Bot. Beg., t. 1942 ; Bot. Mag., t. 5288, 



B. Lobbii, Lindley. — The flowers of this species are large, 

 the sepals and petals deep tawny yellow, the upper sepal 

 spotted at the back with purple. It produces its solitary 

 flowers on radical scapes from the base of the ovate one- 

 leaved pseudobulbs during the summer months, and lasts 

 long in beauty. B. Henshallii is a pale variety. — Java. 



¥io.— Bot. Mag., t. 4532 ; Faxt. Fl. Gard., i. 154, fig. 98 ; Lzni. Jard. Fl., t. 

 63 ; Gard. Mag. Bot., iii. 269_(var. Henshallii). 

 Stn. — Sarcupodium Lobbii. 



B. maculatlim, Hort. — An interesting and pretty species ; 

 it has long obtuse bright green leaves, and pale yellow 

 prettily spotted flowers. It is of easy culture, and must be 

 kept in the warm house. — In Ma. 



B. reticulatum, Bateman. — This is a very singular Orchid, 

 the handsomest of the genus, the leaf being three to five inches 

 long, and somewhat heart-shaped, with the nerves of a deeper 

 green than the rest of the surface, giving it a beautifully 



