•74 batfmania. 



BATEMANIA. 



Lindl. in Bot. Eeg. t. 1714 (1835). Benth. et Hook. Geu. Plant. III. p. 540. 

 Dr. Lindley founded this genus on the plant described below "in 

 compliment to Mr. James Bateman, of Knypersley Hall^ Cheshire^ 

 an ardent collector and successful cultivator of orchidaceous plants." 

 To this species Eeichenbach subsequently added several others, which 

 deviate so much from the type that Mr. Bentham removed them 

 to Zygopetalum, to which they much more nearly conform. The 

 genus Batemania thus reduced is, so far as at present known, 

 monotypic ; the single species, however, possesses so little horticultural 

 merit that from an amateur's point of view it very inadequately 

 commemorates the labours of the veteran orchidologist. Our de- 

 scription was taken from a plant in the former collection of 

 Mr. F. G. Tautz, at Studley House, Hammersmith ; the species 

 may therefore be still in cultivation. It is named after Colley, 

 Mr. Bateman's collector in Demerara, where he discovered it in 1834 



Batemania Oolleyi. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovate-oblong, compressed, 2 — 3 inches long, obscurely 

 four-angled and furrowed, mono-dipliyllous. Leaves broadly lanceolate, 

 aciite, narrowed at the base, 7 — 10 inches long. Racemes pendulous, 

 4 — 7 or more flowered ; bracts short, broadly ovate, sub-acute. Flowers 

 distant, about 3 inches in diameter ; dorsal sepal and petals similar and 

 sub-equal, elliptic-oblong, vinous purple toned -with brown ; lateral sepals 

 narrowly oblong, falcate with the inner margin infolded, the margin 

 green, the remaining area vuaous purple toned vitli brown ; lip white 

 with a reddish stain at the base of the intermediate lobe, appressed 

 to the column, tlu'ee-lobed, the side lobes rotund, the front lobe sub- 

 quadrate, emarginate ; crest small, bifid, toothed in front. Colunm semi- 

 terete, white spotted with red ; anther hooded ; pollinia two. 



Batemania Colleyi, Lindl. in Bot. Reg. t. 1714 (1835). Bot. Mag. t. 3818. 

 Rchb. in Walp, Ann. VI. p. 554. Williams' Orch. Alb. VIII. t. 341. 



Excluded Species. 



Batemania 



■R '/■■ ('R 1 h "» I ^^°^ referred to Zygopetalum Burtii (Benth.) 



grandiflora (Batem.) ... „ „ ,, grandiflorum (Benth.) 



Wallisii (Hort.) ... „ „ „ Burtii (Benth.) 



Meleagiis (Rchb ) ... „ „ „ Meleagris (Benth.) 



