BURLINGTONIA FRAGRANS. 
[PLATE 363. | 
Native of Brazil. 
A small-growing epiphyte, with ovate, dark green pseudobulbs, which are 
slightly compressed, smooth when young, becoming wrinkled with age, and _ bearing 
on the apex a single oblong-lanceolate, obtuse leaf, slightly channelled above, 
carinate beneath, leathery in texture, and deep green. Spike issuing from the base 
of the pseudobulb, and bearing a nodding. raceme of deliciously sweet flowers, having 
the fragrance of Jonquils, or of White-thorn, Sepals and petals nearly equal, 
projecting forward in the plane of the lip; lp parallel with the column, deeply 
bi-lobed in front, serrate at the edge, and bearing a broad band of yellow along 
the centre. The raceme is from five to eight-flowered. 
Buruineronta FRAGRANS, Lindley Botanical Register, xxiii, under t. 1927. 
Orchidophile, 1884, p. 297, with Photo; Williams, Orchid-Grower’s Manual, 6 ed., 
Se a 
Burlingtonia is a small family of orchidaceous plants, yet containing some 
pretty dwarf-growing kinds. The genus was established by Lindley about fifty years 
ago, in honour of the late amiable and accomplished Countess of Burlington, who died 
in 1840. The species we here figure is one of the most beautiful. In the wild state 
it grows upon the topmost branches of the Cedrela trees in Brazil (the native Cedar), and 
when in bloom it fills the forest with its delightful odour, which Dr. Lindley compares 
to that ‘of Jonquils, but which to us favours of the blossoms of the White-thorn. 
This plant is imported from Brazil in quantity, and it can be purchased at a reason- 
able price. On account of its dwarf habit it can be grown by anyone, even with 
very little space at their command, yet it has never become so popular with Orchid 
growers as the delightful perfume of its blossoms should have caused it to be. 
We have already figured—in the first volume of the Axrsum, t. 18—B. candida, 
another of the best, and a most beautiful member of this small family. This also has 
white flowers, which are freely produced, but it lacks the delicious odour yielded 
by the flowers of B. fragrans. 
The drawing for the accompanying plate was taken by our artist from a 
specimen growing in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, Upper Holloway, where the 
plant is grown in quantity, specially for cut flowers, a large demand existing for them 
in the shape of coat-flowers, shoulder-sprays, sprays for ladies’ hair, and various 
other purposes of personal adornment. 
Burlingtonia fragrans is a dwarf-growing evergreen species, with small ovate 
pseudobulbs, and dark green leaves, which vary from four to six inches in length. 
The spike is produced from the axils of the leaves, erect at first, afterwards 
