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merara, blooming at different times of the year, and bearing 

 yellow blossoms spotted with brown, which last three weeks 

 in perfection. There are two varieties of this plant, one 

 much better than the other, having larger and brighter 

 coloured flowers. It makes a good show-plant. I have 

 shown a single plant with twenty spikes in full bloom, each 

 about two feet long. 



Br. Laivrenciana, from Demerara, blooming abundantly 

 from June to August ; the colour of the flower is yellow 

 and green spotted with brown, and lasting three or four 

 wrecks in good condition if kept dry. 



B7\ maculata, major, from Jamaica. A free-flowering 

 Orchid, sepals and petals greenish yellow spotted with 

 brown ; lip white spotted with dark brown ; flowers in May 

 and June, lasts five weeks in bloom if kept in a cool house. 



Br. verrucosa. — A curious species from Mexico ; the 

 upper part of the flowers is of a pale green ; the lip white, 

 marked with green warts. It blossoms abundantly in May 

 and June. 



Br. WraycB. — A very good species from Guatemala, 

 producing its flowers on spikes two or three feet long ; 

 sepals and petals are yellowish green, blotched with brown ; 

 the lip is broad and yellow, spotted with brown ; blooms from 

 May to August, and continues flowering for two months. 

 This is a good plant for exhibition, on account of its colour. 



BROUGHTONIA. 



Broughtonia sanguinea, from Jamaica ; the only one of 

 the genus that I have seen cultivated. A very compact 

 evergreen growing plant, which succeeds best on a block 

 of wood, with a little moss, suspended from the roof. It 

 requires a good supply of heat and moisture in the growing 

 season, and produces its spikes of crimson flowers from the 

 top of the bulb, during the summer months, lasting a Ion 



