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B. MACULATA MAJOR, HoH.—k. very free-flowering form of the older 

 species. The sepals and petals arc greenish yellow spotted with brown, and 

 the lip is white spotted with dark brown; it flowers in May and June, and 

 lasts for five weeks in bloom if kept in a cool-house. — Jamaica. 



B. VERRUCOSA, Liiidley. — ^A curious species, in which the upper part of 

 the flower is pale green, and the lip white, marked with green warts. It 

 blossoms abundantly in May and June. — Guatemala. 



Fig.— Batim. Orcli. Mcx. ct Gnat., t. 22. 



Syn. — 0/widlmn vcrrucuA-iim. 



B. VERRUCOSA GRANDIFLORA, TFiiZiams.— A very fine variety, of stronger 

 growth than the typical B. verrucosa, and with flowers twice the size, and of a 

 lighter colour. This is one of the best of the genus we have seen, and is well 

 worth a place in every collection. — Gimtemala. 



BROUGHTONIA, Robert Broicn. 

 (^Tribo Epidendreae, .nMrihe Laelieae.) 



A small genus of epiphytes, which is included in Epidendrum by 

 Reichenbach. It belongs to the series of Laelieae having four pollen 

 masses, and thus technically comes near to Gattleya, with which it 

 agrees in the lip folding over the apodous column, but differs in having 

 the ovary produced into a long hollow neck or cavity. Some three or 

 four species are known, natives of the West Indies; B. sanr/uinea, the 

 most familiar species, is com- 

 mon in the Islands of Cuba 

 and Jamaica, more especially 

 the latter, where it grows on 

 rocks fully exposed to the in- 

 fluence of the sun. 



Culture.- — This plant suc- 

 ceeds best suspended from the 

 roof on a block of wood, with 

 a little moss, and as near the 

 light as possible. It requires 

 a good supply of heat and 

 moisture in the growing season. 

 It is propagated by separating 

 the pseudobulbs. 



B. SANGUINEA, R. Brown. — ^A very compact-growing evergreen epiphyte, 

 with roundish ovate clustered pseudobulbs, bearing one or two linear oblong 

 leaves, from between which springs the peduncle, eight to twelve inches high, 



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BROUGHTONIA SAKGtTINEA. 



