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gloomy, damp woods on the banks of the Rio de Pirapitinga, in the district 
of Bananal. It is scentless, and flowers in June. Mr. Rollisson assures me 
that he received his specimen from the same country as that which 
produced the Zygopetalum cochleare, figured in this work, plate 1857; ifso, 
I must have been misinformed as to Trinidad being the native country of 
the latter. Iam the more disposed to believe such was really the fact, 
because I find a drawing of what is apparently a luxuriant specimen of Z. 
cochleare among M. Descourtilz’s collection, gathered in Brazil, on the 
high mountains separating the province of St. Paul’s from that of Minas 
Geraes, and known by the name of the Mantiqueiras, where it flowers in 
the hottest season. It thrives very well in the Orchideous-house at 
Tooting, where the atmosphere is kept saturated with moisture, and the 
temperature is in winter from 60° to 70° Fahr., and in summer from 70° to 
go°. The house is, of course, well shaded from the bright rays of the 
summer’s sun. Like other kinds of Orchidaceous plants with thick, fleshy 
roots, this requires a considerable quantity of water, and should be freely 
syringed. It is grown in a pot, but would, probably, succeed quite as well 
if hung up, as the greater part of those with fleshy roots do much better in 
that way.” . 
Reichenbach figured the plant, under the name of Batemannia meleagris, 
in his Xenia Orchidacea (i., p. 185, t. 166, fig. 1-2), in 1856, when he 
mentioned some half-dozen other individuals that he had met with. In 
1883 it was figured in the Gartenflora (xxxii, p. 198, t. 1114, fig. 2), froma 
plant in the Zurich Botanic Garden, and in 1889 in the Orchidophile 
(p. 149, with plate), from plants introduced from Brazil by M. Binot, but 
generally it has remained very rare in cultivation. 
Two or three other species subsequently added to the genus are now 
excluded, but in 1872 a second genuine species appeared, though owing to 
the unfortunate confusion of ideas it was described as Batemannia Burtii. 
It may now take its proper rank. 
HunTLEYA Burtii (Batemannia Burtii, Rchb. f. in Gard. Chron., 1872, 
p- 1099). This was described as ‘‘a very interesting and a very difficult plant. 
It has many leaves, much longer than a foot in the very beautiful wild speci- 
mens. The flowers resemble very much those of Batemannia meleagris—so 
much so that I suggested to the happy discoverer, M. Endres, they were but 
a variety of B. meleagris. They are brownish; the petals have a white 
base, and two large black spots, which sometimes appear all to occur on the 
base of the sepals, according to a remark made by M. Endres. The lip 
appears to be white, perhaps with a more pallid anterior part. The flowers 
would appear to be constantly longer and broader than those of the true 
B. meleagris, coming from Rio, Bahia, and St. Paul. Their colour is, of 
course, very different ; the crest on the wings of that organ are not triangular, 
