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BURLINGTONIA CANDIDA. 
[Pate 18.] 
Native of Demerara. 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs elliptic-oblong, aorhpreseell monophyllous. Leaves ever- 
green, broadish oblong, acute, somewhat channelled. Racemes pendulous, issuing from 
the base of the pseudobulbs, three to five-flowered. Flowers two and a half inches 
long, white, semitransparent, with a delightful violet-like fragrance; sepals projected 
forwards in the plane of the lip, the dorsal one obovate-oblong, emarginate, the 
anterior one bifid, linear-oblong, about half the length of the lip, curved sharply 
forwards, and channelled so as to closely invest the spur of the lip; petals parallel 
with the sepals and lip, obovate, oblique, the base encircling the column, spreadin, 
at the apex; lip parallel with the column, with a channelled claw, dilated an 
bilobed in front, cuneate below, decorated in the centre with a yellow bar, the disk 
furnished with four or five yellowish lamelle on each side, of which the anterior 
ones are longer, the spur short, enclosed in the anterior sepal. Column smooth, 
slender, clavate, with two fleshy teeth at the apex. 
Burtineronta canprpa, Lindley, Botanical Register, t. 1927; Id. Paaton’s Flower 
Garden, i. 158; Rand’s Orchids, 179; Floral Magazine, t. 548. 
Ropriquezia canpipa, Bateman in litteris; Reichenbach fil., in Walpers’ Annales 
Botanices Systematice, vi., 695. 
The genus Burlingtonia was dedicated to the amiable and, accomplished Countess 
of Burlington, and contains a few small-growing but very beautiful species, which 
come mostly from Brazil. The plant now under notice, which was the earliest, 
introduction, and the type of the genus, was imported from Demerara, im British 
Guiana, so long since as 1834, by James Bateman, Esq., now a veteran in the study 
and cultivation of Orchids. It is consequently well-known to the growers and collectors 
of this class of plants. 
As a subject for growing in a basket suspended from the roof, this + ses has 
few, if any, equals. When grown in this way, the pendent spikes of white flowers 
hanging over the sides of the basket produce a charming and distinct appearance. 
The plant is compact-growing, and, like all the species of ese cmete is 
evergreen. The pendent flower-spikes are produced from the sides of the pseudo 4 
a each bear from four to six flowers, which are white, marked with yellow in 
the throat, and have a slight but pleasant odour of violets. 
Burlingtonia candida ‘a d be es in the Cattleya-house, in a basket or ae 
Suspended from the roof, Sphagnum moss, with a good drainage composed | of croc a 
18 the best material for its roots, and the bulbs should be well elevated above the 
