lines are sometimes intersected by other transverse ones, so as to give 
_ the flower the appearance of a draught board; but in cultivation these 
chequers gradually disappear. The two lower divisions are rolled 
inwards on their lower margin towards the base. Lase ium half the 
size of the petals, nearly of the same form, white, tipped with claret 
and tinged with pink, with a narrow white claw, at the base of which 
is a crescent-shaped plate, fringed with long stiff yellowish hairs. 
Coivumn of a yellowish white, expanding into a hood nearly as broad 
as the labellum. 
PopuLar anD GeograpHicaL Notice. The genus Huntleya was 
first established by Mr. Bateman for one of Schomburgk’s Demerara 
Orchidacez, to which Dr. Lindley in adopting the genus, added the 
_ present Brazilian species. The affinity of these plants to the Zygo- 
péetala, from which they only differ by the expanded column, is con- 
_ sidered by Lindley as perhaps too close; yet as far as hitherto known 
_ there do not appear to be any connecting species, and we must there- 
fore await further discoveries to determine the point. The species, 
according to the same author, is found in damp gloomy woods on the 
banks of the Rio de Pirapatinga, in the district of Bananal, and on 
the high mountains separating the provinces of St. Paul’s and Minas 
Geraes in Brazil. 
InTRopucTION; WHERE Grown; CuLTuRE. This is one of the 
numerous importations of Messrs. Rollisson, who first flowered it in 
their epiphyte house at Tooting, in July, 1838. It is of vigorous 
growth, and valuable for its rarity and the singular colouring of its 
flowers, although less splendid than some others. It grows freely in 
the damp stove, where the temperature, in summer, ranges from 70 to 
90 degrees of Fahrenheit; and in winter about 20 degrees lower. 
Shade in summer, with frequent syringing, will greatly encourage its 
luxuriant growth. 
IVATION OF THE Nam 
HUNTLEY, named > Me Batis re honour bes the Rey. J. T. Huntley, a 
t Meteacnis, — 
3 mf of fs}. + x 
a 
on account of the 
SyNonyMEs. 
Huntieya meteacris. Lindley: Botanical Register, 1839, t. 14. — 
