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BUKLINGTONIA CANDIDA. 



fragrant, white, except on the upper 

 part of the Hp, which is yellow, 

 and has several fleshy lamellfe in 

 two series on the disk. It flowers 

 in April and May, and sometimes 

 at other seasons, lasting about three 

 weeks in perfection. To grow this 

 species in perfection a good supply 

 of moisture is necessary at the 

 roots ; indeed, it should never be 

 allowed to get dry. — Demerara. 



YiG.—Bot. Reg., tt. 1927, 1929 ; Floral 

 Mag., t. 548 ; Orchid Album, i. t. 18. 



B. decora, Lemaire. — A beautiful 

 free-flowering species of somewhat 

 straggling habit, as it makes long wiry growths between 

 each of the ovate two-edged pseudobulbs, from which the 

 roots proceed. The leaves are linear-oblong, leathery ; and 

 the flowers are produced on lax upright spikes, and are of 

 a delicate white, pencilled with light rose, the sepals and 

 petals convergent, and the large white lip roundish and bilobed. 

 It blooms during the winter months, and succeeds best in a 

 basket, or on a block suspended from the roof. — Brazil. 



Fig —Bot. Mag., t. 4834 ; Batem. 2nd Cent. Orch. PI, t. 110 ; Lemaire, 

 Jard. Fl., t. 188 ; Fl. des Serves, t. 716 ; Paxt. Fl. Gard,, iii. 99, fig. 278. 



Syn. B. amcena. 



B. decora picta, Hooker. — This is a very fine form of the 

 preceding, stronger in growth, with much larger flowers, richer 

 in colour, and altogether a superior variety. It produces 

 its beautiful flowers on branching spikes, some of them bear- 

 ing as many as twenty blossoms. — Brazil. 



'FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 5419. 



B. Farmeri, Hort. — This is a very pretty species, and 

 well worthy of general cultivation. It resembles B. Candida 

 in habit and appearance, and is a very free bloomer, producing 

 its elegant white and yellow flowers in early summer. It 

 succeeds best grown on a block or in a basket with sphagnum 

 moss, suspended from the roof in the Cattleya house. — 

 Native Country not known, 



B. fragrans, Lindley. — A charming species, the flowers of 

 which are deliciously fragrant, the perfume resembling that of 



