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genus were more in cultivation than at the present time. It is 

 closely allied to Mandllaria and Lycaste, but differs from both these 

 genera in having the flowers produced in racemes instead of being 

 solitary. 



CuUwre. — These plants should be grown in the cool end of the 

 Cattleya house, and succeed best grown in pots or on blocks, in a com- 

 post of peat and moss. The treatment they should receive is similar 

 to that recommended for Lycaste and MaxUlaria. 



B. AURANTIACA, Lindley.— 

 An old and showy species, in- 

 troduced in 1835, with broadly- 

 ovate, compressed pseudobulbs ; 

 monophyllous. Flower spike 

 erect, coming from the base of 

 the pseudobulb, bearing three or 

 four bright yellow flowers, faintly 

 spotted with orange. Flowers 

 during the winter months. — 

 Brazil ; Demerara. 



Fig. — Sot. Reg., xxii. t. ISTtj ; 

 Bat. Maj., t. 3597 ; Orchid Album, ix. 

 t. 386. 



B. HARRISONIAE, see Lycaste 

 Harrisoniae. 



B. VITELLINA, Lindhy.-lhis 

 species was introduced by Messrs. 

 Loddiges, of Hackney, in 1838, and 

 until a short time ago was very rare. Pseudobulbs ovoid, angular, furnished 

 with lanceolate-acute solitary leaves. ' Flowers small, about one inch in diameter, 

 deep chrome yellow, having a distinct brown spot on the centre of the lip, which 

 is heart-shaped and three-lobed. — Branil. 



FlQ.—Bot. Rey., 1839, t. 12, 



Sl'N. — MaxiUaria riteUina. 



BIKREHARIA AURANTIACA. 



BLETIA, -Rmw et Pavon. 

 (^Tribe Epideudreac, suitribo Bletieao.) 

 The species belonging to this genus are terrestrial, a few only being 

 worth growing. The flowers of these are produced very freely when 

 they are thoroughly established, and are valuable for cutting and 

 bouquet work, on account of their pleasing colour and the long time 

 they last in water. The pseudobulbs are round or flattened, often 



