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experience with the Burford plant, but equally without result (O. R.i,,) 
p- 18), and in 1898, after renewed failures, he proposed to submit it to still 
more radical treatment (O.R. vi., p. 47), which seems to have been so far. 
successful that a bud was produced on a small side shoot near the top of 
one of the tallest growths (/.c., p. 260.). We afterwards learnt that the 
single flower was not a fully-developed one, but we hope that it gives 
promise of success in the future. 
THE GENUS HUNTLEYA. 
(Concluded from page 272.) 
HunTLEyA Gustavi (Batemannia Gustavi, Rchb. f. in Linnea, xli. p. 108; | 
Xen. Orch. iii., p. 39, t. 216, fig. 3, 4).—This species is a native of New : 
Grenada, where it was collected by Gustav Wallis at 5,000 to 6,000 feet 
altitude, and was described by Reichenbach in 1877. It is allied to H. 
meleagris, Lindl., and has yellow flowers with two transverse red blotches’ 
on the petals, the sepals largely suffused with the latter colour, except 
near the base, and the front lobe of the lip minutely spotted all over. I 
have not seen specimens of it. . 
HUNTLEYA APICULATA (Batemannia apiculata, Rchb. f. in Linnea, xli, 
p. 109; Xen. Orch. iii., p. 38, t. 216, fig. I, 2).—This is another of Gustav 
Wallis’ New Grenadan discoveries, and was described at the same time as 
the preceding. Its altitude is given as 1,000 feet, and only two specimens 
are said to have been found. It is a small species, with flowers about half 
as large as the preceding, and white in colour, and it is said that the two 
flowers in Reichenbach’s Herbarium are all that came to Europe; in fact, 
they were brought to Wallis when lying sick at the Hospital at Cuenca, and 
no one seems to have discovered the species since. 
Two or three other species were referred to Batemannia by Reichenbach, 
but so far as I can find they either belong there or to the allied genus 
Galeottia, and it is rather difficult to see why Huntleya should have been 
associated with them. It would be very interesting to see the other species 
in cultivation, and sooner or later some of our collectors ought to meet with — 
them, in which case I hope that they will secure specimens for drying as 
well as living plants. It frequently happens that species difficult to import 
never reach home alive, but if dried specimens were also secured it would at 
all events make us acquainted with their characters. 
Since the above was written I have dropped across an interesting note 
by Roezl, which it may be interesting to repeat in this connection :— 
“ BATEMANNIA WALLISII MAJOR (Rchb. fils.).—What a fine flower for 
an Orchid! Such was my first impression when I discovered this species: 
The flower reaches 15 centimetres (six inches) in diameter. Its colour 
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