136 orchid-growek's manual. 



B. FARMERI, Hort. — This is a very pretty species, and well worthy of 

 general cultivation. It resembles B. Candida in habit and appearance, and is 

 a very free bloomer, producing its elegant white and yellow flowers in early 

 summer. It succeeds best grown on a block or in a Ijasket with sphagnum 

 moss, suspended from the roof in the Cattleya house. — Native Country not 

 known. 



B. FRAGRANS, Lindley. — A charming species, the flowers of which are 

 deliciously fragrant, the perfume resembling that of the hawthorn. They 

 grow in pendent racemes; and have the sepals and petals white, and the lip 

 white stained with yellow down the centre ; they are produced in April and 

 May, on a drooping spike, and last three or four weeks in beauty if kept free 

 from damp. — Brazil. 



¥ia.—L' Orchidophile, Oct., 188i, p. 297, photograph ; Gard. C'hron., 3 ser., iv. 188?, 

 p. 757, fig. 106 ; Orehid Album, viii. t. 363. 

 Syn. — Iiodrigvs::ia fragrans. 



B. KNOWLESII, Hort. — A beautiful species, somewhat similar in habit to 



B. venusta, very dwarf and compact. The flowers are white, slightly tinged 

 with pinkish lilac, and produced in long racemes. It blooms during the 

 autumn, and continues in perfection a long time. A scarce Orchid. — Native 

 Country not known. 



B. LEEANA, Williams. — A very distinct and beautiful species, producing 

 drooping spikes of- flowers. In growth it resembles B. fragrans, but is some- 

 what stronger, with" ligulate ancipitous pseudobulbs and linear-lanceolate 

 leaves a foot long. It produces ten or more flowers on a spike ; the sepals and 

 petals are cream-colour with a yellow mid-line, and flushed with pale rosy 

 purple, the lip cream-colour spotted with rosy purple of difierent shades, the 

 crest yellow of two long linear keels, each having four small lateral keels 

 spreading outwards. The blossoms have a delicious perfume. It flowers in 

 January and February. — Bio NegrOi 



Stn. — Rodrignezia Zeeana. 



B. VENUSTA, Lindley. — -A very pretty species, with rigid dark green 

 leaves, and pendulous racemes of flowers, which are white, with yellow down 

 the centre of the lip. It blooms at difierent times of the year, and lasts two 

 or three weeks in good condition. — Brazil. 



Fig.— III. Hort., t. 188 ; ffertwm Orch., t. 2 ; Vcitch's Man. Oroh. PI., ix. p. 176. 

 Stn. — Bodriguczia vemtsta. 



OALANTHE, Bobert Brown. 

 {Tribe Bpidendreae, suUribe Coelogyneae.) 

 There are some beautiful species belonging to this genus, and con- 

 sequently these plants are great favourites. They are of easy culture, 

 having bold evergreen foliage, except in the case of the vestita group — 



C. vestita, C. VeitcMi, C. Turneri, G. Williamsii, and G. Regnieri — which 

 are deciduous, losing their leaves during the season of rest. The latter 



