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PL, COEILAAY. 
BATEMANNIA COME ENT arino 
Mr. COLLEY’S BATEMANNIA. 
BATEMANNIA. Sepala aequilonga, posticum liberum, erectum, concavum, lateralia pedi longo columnae 
adnata, ad apicem pedis patentia, postico angustiora. Petala sepalo postico subsimilia et plana, basi pedi columnae 
latiuscule adnata. Labellum ad apicem pedis columnae articulatum, basi incumbens, concavum ; lobi laterales erecti, 
columnam amplectentes, medius patens, brevis, indivisus, crista ad basin lobi parva. Columna longiuscula, crassa, 
antice concava, exalata, basi in pedem producta: clinandrium obliquum, margine elevato membranaceo denticulato. 
Anthera intra marginem clinandrii affixa, opercularis, incumbens, convexa, bilocularis, membrana lata appendiculata; 
pollinia 2, cerea, anguste oblonga, sulcata y. biloba, inappendiculata, anthera dehiscente glandulae (v. stipiti) obo- 
vatae v. cuneiformi planae affixa. 
Herba epiphytica, caulibus abbreviatis uni-trifoliatis, mox in pseudobulbum carnosum incrassatis. Folia ampla, 
membranaceo-coriacea, plicato-venosa, basi breviter contracta. Scapi ad basin pseudobulborum recurvi v. penduli, 
basi vaginis subfoliaceis stipati, simplices. Flores majusculi, laxe racemosi, pedicellati. Bracteae ovatae, pedicello 
breviores. 
Species unica, guianensis. 
Batemannia LINDL., Bot. Reg., XX (1835), t. 1714. — BENTH. & Hook. F. Gen. Plant., III, p. 346. 
Batemannia Colleyi, Pseudobulbi ovato-oblongi, subtetragoni, 4-5 cm. longi. Folia oblongo-lanceolata, acuta 
v. breviter acuminata, plicata, basi angustata. Racemus radicalis, pendulus, 5-10 cm. longus, laxiflorus. Bracteae 
thombeae, striatae, conduplicatae, 1.1-1.5 cm. longae. Flores pedicellati. Sepalum posticum erectum, oblongum, 
obtusum, 2-3 cm. longum; lateralia patentia, lineari-spathulata, basi angustiora, 2.5-3.5 cm. longa. Petala subconni- 
ventia, oblonga, obtusa, sepalo postico subaequalia. Labellum oblongum, lobis lateralibus rotundatis, intermedio sub- 
cuneato. Columna elongata, clavata. 
Batemannia Colleyi Linpi. Bot. Reg., XX, t. 1835. — Bot. Mag., t. 3818. — Warn. & WILL. Orch. Album, 
VII, t. 341. 
atemanma Colleyt was originally sent from Demerara to James Barr- 
MAN, Esq., of Knypersley, by his collector, Mr. Cotiry. It flowered 
in 1835, when it was figured and described by Dr. Linptey in the 
Botanical Register. “ We name this genus, ” he remarks, “ in compliment to 
James Bateman, Esq., of Knypersley, an ardent collector and successful cultivator 
of Orchideous epiphytes. Mr. Cottey, after whom the species is called, was 
Mr. Baremay’s collector in Demerara. ” He had then just returned from a suc- 
cessful mission, with a considerable number of epiphytes which were new to 
cultivation. 
Linptey spoke of it as a handsome species, and quite different from all the 
genera previously described. It is somewhat curious that no other plant possess- 
ing a similar structure has since appeared, and so far as our knowledge at 
present extends the genus is monotypic. ReIcHENBACH, it is true, described 
several species under the name of Batemannia, but they have little in common 
with our present plant, as a comparison with the annexed plate would abundantly 
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