BROtTGHTONiA. ISl 



by Dr. Robert Brown to Mr. Arthur Broughton, an English botanist 

 of the early part of the present century. 



Broughtonia sanguinea. 



Pseudo-bulbs chxstered, roundish ovate, sometimes compressed, 1|— 2 



inches long, pale pea-green, diphyllous. Leaves linear-oblong, obtuse, 



3 — 4 inches long, very leathery. Peduncles terminal, slender, erect or 



nodding, 12 or more inches long with a small appressed bract at each 



joint, racemose along the distal half, 6 — 9 flowered. Flowers bright 



crimson-purple with an orange yellow blotch at the base of the hp, 



1^ inches in diameter Avitli reddish purple pedicel and ovary ; sepals 



lanceolate, acute ; petals oval-oblong, nearly three times as broad as 



the sepals ; lip sub-orbicular with denticulate margin produced at the 



base into a slender spur that is adnate to the ovary. Column short, 



dilated at the apex. 



Broughtonia sanguinea, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew, ed. 2, V. p. 217 (1810—13). 

 Lindl. Gen. et. Sp. Orch. p. 118 (1831). Bot. Mag. t. 3076. B. coccinea, Hook. 

 Bot. Mag. t. 3536 (1836). Hook. Cent. Orch. t. 36. Epidendrum sanguineum, 

 Sw. Prod. p. 124. Rchb. in Walp. Ann. Syst. VI. p. 32i. Van Houtte's Fl. 

 des Serves, XXII. t. 2315. 



One of the earliest epiphytal orchids cultivated in England^ it 

 having been introduced to the Royal Garden" at Kew, in 1793_, by 

 Mr. Walter Ewer. It is a native of Jamaica, where it grows upon 

 the old trunks of Bombax, Rhizophora, Conocarpus and other trees 

 not far from the sea-shore, often in company vfith Brassavola 

 nodosa. The colour of its flowers is rich and bright, and of a tint 

 scarcely to be seen in any other orchid in cultivation. 



Cultural Note. — Brouglitonia sanguinea requires but little compost, 

 and it is thence best cultivated in a teak basket, or on a block 

 or raft that can be suspended near the roof-glass. A tropical temper- 

 ature and a moist atmosphere being essential, it should have a light 

 position in the East India house. 



INDEX. 



The names in italics are varieties or synonyms ; those followed by X are hybrids. 

 Aruxdina— page Bletia— 



bambuspefolia 77 hyacinthina 



densa ... ... ... ... 77 Masuca 



speciosa 77 Slieplierdii 



Sherrattiana 

 ''"■'''Ti\— TanlcervillcK 



aciitipctiila 23 tuberculosa 



catenulata -jl verecunda 



''''ebinn .j-i JVoodfori-Hi 



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