Professor Reichenbach has included it in the genus Epidendrum, but it is quite 
different in several particulars. It is also closely allied to Laelia and ths 
comes near to Cattleya in having four pollen masses; but the other organs 
of the flower, however, make it quite distinct from either of these. Our 
present illustration was prepared by our able artist, Mr. J. N. Fitch, from i 
plant which flowered in the Victoria and Paradise Nurseries, where we have always 
managed to flower it very freely during the summer months. It is a plant that 
has the great advantage of occupying but little space, and should therefore find great. 
favour on this account, as many plants can be grown, especially where space is 
limited. 
Broughtonia sanguinea is a dwarf evergreen plant, producing short pseudobulbs — 
about two inches or more long, of a pale green colour; these support a pair of 
thick leathery leaves on the top, about four inches in length, of a deep olive- 
green, and linear-oblong in shape. From between the leaves the flower spike 
ascends, which is upwards of a foot long, and carries at the end many of the 
bright showy blooms which are borne on reddish purple-coloured pedicels. The 
sepals and petals are all of a rich crimson, the latter being very much broader 
and wavy, whilst the former are lanceolate and plain; the lip is fully an inch and 
a half in diameter, sub-orbicular, with fimbriated margin, and is also of a rich 
crimson, veined with a darker shade, and having a white blotch near the throat, 
where it is stained with deep orange-yellow. This plant is well deserving a place 
in every collection on account of the brilliant and distinct colours of its flowers, 
which last a long time in full beauty if they are not sprinkled with water 
from the syringe. If given the proper treatment, this plant is very easy to grow. 
We find it succeeds best when placed on a wooden block, with a very smal] 
quantity of sphagnum moss around its roots, only just sufficient to keep it 
moist being necessary. It should then be placed in a light position close to the 
glass, where it can obtain plenty of sunshine, which is very essential to induce it 
to bloom freely. lt requires an occasional dipping in water, and the syringe should ~ 
be used often, which will also keep the atmosphere in a nice moist condition. As 
this is a native of the tropics, it is only natural that it must have plenty of heat 
under cultivation, it should therefore be grown at the warm end of the Cattleya 
house, or amongst the East Indian Orchids. : 
