BRA SSI A —B URLING TONIA . 



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rooting plants, abundance of water is needed while growing. Less suffices in the resting 

 season, but at no time must the plants be dried sufficiently to cause shrivelling. All 

 of them produce drooping, or arching, spikes of flowers that last long in beauty. 



Eepresentative Species. 



B. antherotes. — A large-growing species with yellow 



flowers blotched with purple - brown. Brazil, 



Ecuador, 1879 («'). 

 B. bracheata. — A handsome species ; the flowers are 



yellowish green, with numerous dark spots (i). 



(Fig. 37). 



B. CAUDATA. — One of the oldest-known kinds ; sepals 

 and petals greenish yellow ; lip similar, with a 

 few red spots under a white crest. W. Indies, 

 1823 (/). 



B. Keiliana.— A variable species, having greenish 

 segments, blotched with brown and red in the 



type, var. tristis being deep reddish brown. 

 Columbia, 1825 (/). 



B. Lanceana. — One of the best; flowers on long, 

 showy spikes, golden yellow, with brownish and 

 red blotches. Surinam, 1834 (/). 



B. maculata. — Sepals and petals greenish yellow, 

 spotted with brown ; the lip white, with small 

 dots of purple. Jamaica, 1814 (?'). 



B. verrucosa. — A pretty species, sepals and petals 

 light yellow, spotted with dark green ; lip white 

 with black warts. Guatemala, 1840 (?'). 



brotjghtonia sanguinea. — A plant that thrives best on a block, or in a small 

 basket suspended in a light and moderately dry house. Water must be freely given all 

 the year round if the plant is grown on a block. Jamaica, 1793 (h). 



BULBOPHYLLUM. — The plants comprised in this genus are of marvellous structure 

 and very interesting on this account, but not quite suitable for inexperienced amateur 

 cultivators. For this reason they are not described ; but when they are cared for they 

 may be grown in small baskets, or on blocks, suspended from the roof, in the warmest 

 house. 



burlingtoni A. — These are beautiful orchids (grouped with Eodriguezia) admirably 

 adapted for small collections, as they take up little room and produce numerous flowers. 

 They do well in baskets or pots of peat fibre and moss, this material being kept well up 

 to the base of the last-formed pseudo-bulb, as they are somewhat straggling in habit and 

 apt to grow away from the compost. The roots are freely produced and each set of 

 young pseudo-bulbs should be pegged down to the compost before they have made 

 much progress. They then enter this freely, at once, while, if allowed to grow in the 

 air, they cannot afterwards be induced to do so. A light surfacing of moss the second 

 year is better than again disturbing the plants, and this conducts the roots to the 

 compost. They are amongst the easiest of orchids to propagate, almost every 

 severed pseudo-bulb making a plant. Selected species : B. Batemanni. — Flower 

 white, with a mauve lip, and produced from roundish pseudo-bulbs. Peru, 1830 (•<*). 

 B. Candida. — Large, fragrant flowers, semi-transparent, white, with a yellow centre to the 



