prove. The fact is REIcHENBACH’s Batemannias belong to LinpLey’s genus 
Huntleya, which has since been reduced as a section of Zygopetalum. 
It is difficult to account for the confusion, but the same remarks would 
apply to the case of Laelia and Bletia, which this author persistently regarded 
as forming one common genus, in spite of their numerous important differences. 
The plant now under consideration has distinct ovoid-oblong pseudobulbs, 
which bear one or two, or even three, oblong-lanceolate leaves, with plicate 
nerves, and lax drooping racemes of flowers, whose sepals and petals are 
generally of a reddish-brown colour with green tips, and the lip yellowish-white. 
Sometimes the sepals and petals are considerably paler. The dorsal sepal and 
petals are somewhat connivent, the latter united to the foot of the column, but 
the linear-spathulate lateral sepals are spreading from their point of attachment. 
As regards culture, it is probable that it would succeed well under the same 
treatment as is given to Paphinia cristata, from the same country. It should 
therefore be planted in well-drained pans of good fibrous peat and sphagnum 
moss, and suspended near the glass in the East Indian house. During the 
growing season an abundance of water should be given. 
; R. A. Rotre. 
