150 Lindlei/s Sertimi Orchidaceum, 



the Hortus Brifa?imcus, will be found under Floricultural No- 

 tices. The remaining species are figured from drawings lent to 

 Dr. Lindley by Baron Delessert and the East India Company. 

 They are as follows : — 



Bwiingtbmsi venusta LindL, pi. ii., noticed in Bot> Reg.^ in the 

 text to 1. 1927.3 is at present only known from a drawing made in 

 Brazil by M. J. T. Decourtilz, and forming part of a manuscript 

 description, with figures, now the property of M. le Baron 

 Benjamin Delessert. " As I have," says Dr. Lindley. " the 

 permission of their liberal proprietor to publish such as are most 

 remarkable in this collection, I shall have frequent occasion to 

 avail myself of its materials in illustration of the present work." 

 There is no description of B. venusta among Descourtilz's MSS. ; 

 but, as the species comes very near Burlingtonm fragrans Lindl., 

 described and figured by Descourtilz, the description of that 

 species is given, as the best attempt that can be made at present 

 to get some idea of B. venusta. Nothing is known of the habits, 

 or parts of Brazil where B. venusta is found. B. fragrans is 

 remarkable for the fragrance which its flowers exhale of jonquil 

 or of some water lily. " It grows among the topmost branches 

 of the cedrela, in the districts of Morro-Quemado and Macabe, 

 and near the city of Bom Jesus de Bananal, blossoming in 

 October." 



Cymbidiiim giganteimi Wall. Cat., No. 7355., Lindl, Gen. et Sp. 

 Orch., p. 163., and Lindl. Sertum, pi. iv. " The most striking of 

 all the plants belonging to the true genus Cymbidium ; a native 

 of Nepal, where it was discovered by Dr. Wallich in 1831. Dr. 

 Lindley 's figure is prepared after a drawing made at the time of 

 its discovery, and liberally placed at his disposal, for publication, 

 by the East India Company. The leaves are upwards of 2 ft. 

 long. The flowers are large, rather closed, and of a dull purple 

 colour. 



Cattlei^a. bicolor Lindl. Sert. Orch., t. v. f 1., Bot. Reg. in 

 letterpress to t. 1919. A very distinct Brazilian species, only 

 known from the drawing of M. Descourtilz, who speaks of it as 

 follows: — "This beautiful plant grows at a great elevation on 

 the trunks and branches of the largest trees, where it sometimes 

 forms an enormous tuft. I have only found it in the neighbour- 

 hood of Bom Jesus de Bananal. Its flower endures for a great 

 while, opens in the month of April, and exhales the sweet smell 

 of the garden pink." 



Sophronitis grandiflora Lindl. Sert. Orch., t. v. f. 2. ; syn. Catt- 

 ieya coccinea Bot. Beg., t. 1919., in letterpress ; E'pidendre pon- 

 ceau Descourtilz's Draimngs, pi. x. p. 27. A most brilliant little 

 epiphyte, found in Brazil by M. Descourtilz, upon the high moun- 

 tains that separate the district of Bananal from that of Ilha 

 Grande. It grows there in abundance upon falling and decaying 



