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ORCHIDS 



Broughtonia. 

 Mr. Arthur Broughton, an English botanist. It requires 

 intermediate-house treatment, and does best grown in 

 baskets or on blocks of wood, with a little peat and moss 

 placed amongst the roots. A fairl}- humid position at all 

 seasons should be assigned it, but when in active growth 

 it requires an abundance of ^vater and a bright light, only 

 sufficient shade being provided to protect the foliage 

 from scorching. This genus now includes Lccliopsis. 



B. sanguinea {R. Br.). — Flowers blood-coloured, rather large, 

 disposed in a terminal panicle ; scape divided ; column distinct, 

 or at the very base united with the unguiculate lip, which is 

 lengthened at the base into a tube, connate with the ovarium. 

 Leaves twin, oblong, seated on a pseudo-bulb. Jamaica, 1793. 

 (B. M., t. 3076.) 



BROWNLEEA. 



Three species of greenhouse terrestrial Orchids, of the 

 tribe OphrydecE, nati\es of South Africa, make up this 

 genus. They are closelj- allied to Disa, but have a very 

 small upturned lip, and an erect, concave, or helmet- 

 shaped odd sepal without a spur. Onl}- one species has 

 been known to cultivation, and this requires similar 

 treatment to Disa. Harve}' stands sponsor for the name, 

 which is in honour of the Rev. J. Brownlee, a missionary 

 stationed in King William's Town, Caffraria. 



B. caerulea (Zr<z?-z'.).— Flowers pale blue, with violet dots and a 

 long, straight spur ; spikes erect, lax, many-flowered. Leaves, two or 

 three, sessile or shortly petiolate, ovate or lanceolate, acuminate, 

 three-ribbed. Stems erect, annual, springing from an amorphous, 

 lobed tuber. Introduced 1893. (B- M., t. 7309.) 



BULBOPHYLLUM. 



Few of the species of the genus Bulbophvlluin {Thou.), 

 of the tribe Epidendrece, find favour with Orchid-growers. 

 Those here described are in cultivation, and are" either 

 pretty or deserving of notice on account of the singular 

 structure of their flowers. The rhizome is stout and 

 creeping, and usually the pseudo-bulbs are small and 

 roundish, bearing one or two stiff, leather\' leaves on the 

 top, and thus giving rise to the generic name ffrom bulbos. 



