BARKERIA CYCLOTELLA. 
[Puare 148. ] 
Native of Guatemala. 
Epiphytal. Stems short, erect, leafy, as thick as a quill, springing from a 
creeping rhizome. Leuwves ligulate-oblong acute, distichous, clasping the stem at the 
base, of a light green colour. ape terminal, erect, slender, reddish, about a foot 
high, with a few sheathing pallid whitish brown striate bracts, surmounted by a 
_raceme of about six flowers, which have slender purple-red pedicels one and a half 
inch long, with short membranaceous triangular acute bracts at their base. lowers 
spreading, about two inches across, richly coloured and very handsome; sepals 
anceolate acute, spreading, about an inch long, entire, of a rich deep magenta, the 
dorsal one projected forwards; petals ovate, twice as broad as the sepals and about 
the same length, acute, deep magenta; lip broad, roundish, entire, emarginate, 
narrowed suddenly at the base, the disk white, with a broad even margin about 
one-fourth of an inch wide of deep magenta, and having a tapering pointed crest 
running out beyond the tip of the adnate column towards the apex of the lip. 
Column adnate to the base of the lip, broad upwards, deep magenta on the exposed 
side, es one-third the length of the lip, the slightly-winged edge and under 
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side white. 
BARKERIA CYCLOTELLA, Reichenbach JSu., 1 Gardeners’ Chronicle, N.S. xili., 72. 
The genus of which we here picture a representative is a most beautiful one, 
and there are among its members some charming species with bright coloured flowers, 
such as Barkeria Skinneri and others. B. spectabilis, with its most beautiful rosy 
pink blossoms dotted with crimson, forms a nice contrast to this highly coloured 
plant, of which there are many varieties, varying both in size and colour. We 
exhibited a specimen of B. Skinneri nearly forty years ago at the Regent Street 
meetings, and Dr. Lindley awarded it a Silver Banksian Medal. When Mr. Skinner 
was sending home Orchids these plants were more numerous, and they were then 
well cultivated. 
The Barkerias are plants of which we require large importations every few 
years, but we have known specimen plants to be cultivated and kept in order for 
several seasons. They require to be grown in a cool airy house, with all the light 
and sun that can be given them, as they naturally grow in exposed situations. 
We are indebted to F. A. Philbrick, Esq., Q.C., of Oldfield, Bickley, who grows 
these Barkerias well, for the opportunity of figuring the present beautiful species. 
This gentleman has favoured us with some remarks giving his own experience, 
which, with his permission, we gladly introduce, that our readers may be profitably 
