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OECHID-GKOWER S MANUAL. 



B. BELLA — See Coelia bella. 



B. BURTII, Endr. et Bchh. /.—This remarkable and beautiful plant, whicb 

 is almost stemless, has leaves which measure a foot in length, and from two to 

 two and a half inches in breadth, and are of a dark green colour. The peduncles 

 are solitary, radical, erect, one-flowered, and the flowers are three inches across, 

 yellow in the centre, the sepals and petals triangular oblong, reddish brown 

 with brownish yellow chequered spots, the two petals having in addition a large 

 dark-brown radiating blotch at the base ; the basal part of the stalked trowel- 

 shaped lip is white, the apex dark brown; the claw bearing a transverse 

 semi-lunar two-lobed white auricle, cut into, incurved setiform dark purple 

 teeth. It has the peculiarity of throwing the roots out from between the 

 bottom leaves. This species was flrst flowered in the collection of the late 

 W. B. Hume, Esq., of Winterton, Yarmouth.— Oosia Bica. 



¥m.—JBot. Mag., t. 6003 ; Floral Mag., 2 ser., 1. 101 ; M'arner, Sel. Orch. PI., ii. t. 35 ; 

 Veitch's Man. Orch. PL, ix. p. 45 ; Gard. World, ix. p. 17 ; Rcichenbaohia, 2 ser., ii. t. 66. 

 Syn. — Zygopetalum Burtii. 



B. COLLEYI, Lindletj. — A 

 most distinct and beautiful spe- 

 cies bearing oblong compres- 

 sed furrowed quadrangular 

 bulbs, two inches high; leaves 

 solitary, broadly - lanceolate 

 acute, ribbed, coriaceous, deep 

 green, spike produced from 

 base of pseudobulbs, flowers 

 two and a half to three inches 

 across, sepals and petals pur- 

 plish brown, greenish towards 

 the base inside, green outside, 

 lip erect, three-lobod, white 

 dotted and streaked with red. 

 Flowers during March and 

 April. — Demerara. 



Fig. — Lindlnj Pot. Pj.'g., xx. 

 t. 1714 ; Bot. Mag., t. 3818 ; 

 Orchid Album, viii. t. 341 ; Ziu- 

 deiiia, viii. t. 365. 



B. GRANDIFLORA, Rchh.f. — This extremely curious and very pretty Orchid 

 was introduced some quarter of a century ago, but is not often to be met with. 

 It has ovate pseudobulbs some three or four inches long, bearing two large 

 broadly lanceolate leathery leaves. The peduncle comes up with the young 

 growth, bearing a raceme of three or four flowers of curious structure ; the 

 sepals, of which the lateral ones are much the smaller, and the spreading petals, 

 are olive green striped with reddish brown ; the lip is white, with reddish 

 purple streaks, and toothed margin and veins ; the basal part orange-yellow 

 with red streaks, developed into a semicircular frill or rufE with sharp pointed 

 teeth in the middle, and having two acute toothed white side-lobes. — New 

 Grenada : 4,000 ft. elevation, therefore not a cool Orchid. 



Fig.— .Boi. Mag., t. 5567 ; Bateman, 2nd Cent. Orch. PL, t. 172. 

 Syn. — Galeuttia grandiflura. 



BATEMANKIA COLLEYI. 



