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the height of from twelve to eighteen inches, bearing a large number of flowers 

 of a dark rosy colour, somewhat deeper tinted in the lip, which is marked 

 towards the base with yellow streaks.— Guatemala. 



Fig.— Floral Mag., t. 185 ; Warner, Sd. Orch. PL, i. t. 38. 



B. SPECTABILIS, Bateman.—A charming species, having cylindrical stems 

 four or five inches high, each bearing two fleshy lanceolate acute leaves. The 

 flowers proceed from the top of the stem in a raceme consisting of eight or ten 

 spreading blossoms, which are nearly three and a half inches wide ; the lip is 

 white at the base and in the .centre, rosy lilac at the point and margin, and 

 richly marked with small blood-red dots. It blooms in June and July, and 

 lasts three or four weeks in perfection if kept in a cool-house. This makes a 

 splendid plant for exhibition. We have seen specimens at the Chiswick and 

 Regent's Park shows with as many as twenty spikes on one plant. A very 

 distinct and desirable Orchid. — Mexico ; Oiiatemala. 



Fig.— Bateman, OrcJi. Met: ct Guat., t. 33 ; But. Marj., t. 4094 ; Paxton, Miirj. But., 

 X. 169, with tab. ; Hooh. First Centmry, t. 35. 



BATEMANNIA, Lindlcy. 

 (Tribe Vandcae, subtrihe Cyrtopodicae.) 

 This is a small genus of dwarf, compact-growing plants, generally of 

 free-flowering habit. They have short stems which scarcely become 

 thickened into pseudobulbs, ample plicatelj^-venose leaves, and large 

 flowers on recurved peduncles. The dorsal sepal is free, erect, and 

 concave, and the lateral ones adnate to the produced foot of the column, 

 with which the lip is articulated. The species are mostly showy plants, 

 and well worth growing, as they are easily accommodated. 



Culture. — The Batemannias will do either in pots or baskets, or on 

 blocks ■with moss. If grown in pots or baskets, peat and moss form the 

 best material for potting. They should be placed in the Cattleija house, 

 with a good supply of water in the growing season, and be shaded 

 from the sun. 



B. BEAUMONTII, Rclib. f. — A pretty dwarf-growing plant, with pyriform 

 tetragonal pseudobulbs, plicated cuneate-oblong light green leaves, and erect 

 one or two-flowered peduncles ; the flowers are two inches in diameter, light 

 green marked throughout with longitudinal stripes of pale olive brown, the lip 

 white with light lilac-purple dots and streaks, trifid, the semi-oblong toothed 

 side lobes incurved, and bearing on the disk between them about seven long 

 parallel acute crests. — Brazil ; Bahia. 



Fig. — Xenia Orch., iii. t. 215. 



Syn. — Stenia Beaumontti ; Galeattia Beaumontii. 



