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flowers nearly as large as those of B. spectabilis. There are two or three 

 varieties in cultivation. — Mexico. 



Fig.— /C ^ W. Floral Cab., t. 49 ; Bot. Mag., t. 4784 ; M. dcs Serves, t. 959 ; 

 Illust. Hort., t. 23 ; Pesoatorea, t. 10 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., t. 394 ; Orchid Alhwni, 

 V. t. 195 ; Vcitch's Man. Oreh. PL, vi. p. 96 ; Jowrn. o-f Hort., xiii., 1886, p. 361, f. 54. 

 Gari. Chron,., 3 ser., vii., 1830, p. b6, t. 11. 



Stn. — Fpidendruin elegans. 



B. ELEGANS NOBILIOR, JJcM./.— This variety first flowered with Sir T. 

 Lawrence, Bart., Dorking, in 1886, and differs from the type in having much 

 larger flowers and a nearly black purple spot on the lip. — Mexico. 



B. LINDLEYANA, Bateman. — A very distinct and handsome species, with 

 slender stems a foot high, having elliptic oblong acute leaves, and long erect 

 racemes of rather large flowers, which are of a rosy purple colour, the lip, 

 which is oblong-quadrate and apiculate, being rich purple at the tip, with a 

 blotch of white in its centre f it blooms in September and October, and lasts 

 long in good condition. — Oosta Rica ; Mexico. 



Fig. — Bateman, Oreh. Mex. et Guat., t. 23 ; Bot. Mag., t. 6098 Paxton Mag. Bot., 

 xiii. 193, with tab. ; Jennings, Oreh., t. 14. 



Syn. — Fpidi'7idrum Lindleyanum. 



B, LINDLEYANA CENTERAE, Endr. et Jlclih. /.—A beautiful variety with 

 longer pseudobulbs, and larger purple-lilac flowers, intensely purple at the tip, 

 the disk yellowish white spotted with purple, the column lilac beautifully 

 blotched with deep purple. — Costa Rica. 



Fio. — Tlie Garden, xxvii , 1885, p. 396 ; VelteKs Man. Oreh. PI., vi. p. 103. 



B. MELANOCAULON, Rich, et Gal.— A. pretty and free-flowering Orchid. 

 It has erect terete dark purple stems, and elliptic acute leaves ; the flowers are 

 produced on an upright spike, and have, the sepals and petals rosy lilac, the lip 

 reddish purple with a blotch of green in the centre. It produces its blossoms 

 from June to September, and will continue in perfection a long time. A very 

 rare and desirable species. — Costa Rica. 



Fig. — Rich, et Gal., Ann. Sc. Wat., 3rd ser., iii. 22, t. 19 ; Ann. de Gand, 184S, t. 212. 



B. SKINNERI, Bateman. — A beautiful free-flowering Orchid, with erect 

 stems a foot high, clothed with distichous lanceolate rather fleshy leaves, and 

 bearing erect cylindrical racemes, six to nine inches long, of large deep rose- 

 coloured blossoms. The flower spikes are sometimes two feet long, each 

 bearing as many as from twenty to thirty flowers. It will continue in blossom 

 from November to February, and is a valuable Orchid for winter blooming. — 

 Mexico; Guatemala. 



Vm.—Bot. Mag., tt. 3951, 4094 ; Bot. Reg., t. 1881 ; Paxton, Mag. Bot., xv. 1, with 

 tab. ; Veitch's Man. Oreh. PL, vi. p. 118. 



B. SKINNERI SUPERBA, JTori.— This far surpasses the type in the size of the 

 flowers and of the raceme, as well as in the brilliancy of its colour ; moreover, 

 it frequently produces a branched inflorescence, no doubt from its stronger 

 growth and constitution. The steins grow about a foot high, the flower spike 

 proceeding from the top when the growth is nearly completed, and attaining 



