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HOULLETIA. 



This is the handsomest and best known of the Houlletias. It 

 was introduced from Kio de Janeiro by Mr. Wanklyn, of Manchester, 

 by whom it was communicated to Mr. Brocklehurst, of The Firs, near 

 Macclesfield, at that time the possessor of one of the best orchid 

 collections in England, and in which this orchid flowered for the 

 first time in 18 il. On the flowers being sent to Dr. Lindley for 

 identification he doubtfully referred the species to Maxillaria, but 

 immediately afterwards removed it to Houlletia on the publication 





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Houlletia Brockleliurstiana. 



of that genus by the eminent French botanist, Adolphe Brongniart, 

 in the Annales des Sciences Naturelles. A short time previous to its 

 introduction into this country, this orchid had been discovered grow- 

 ing on trees at Corcovado, near Rio de Janeiro, by Houllet, a French 

 gardener, who had accompanied M. Guillemin on a mission to Brazil, 

 and who brought living specimens to the Jardin des Plantes at 

 Paris, -where on its flowering it was constituted a new genus by 

 M. Brongniart, but who singularly enough omitted to give it a specific 



