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THE ORCHID WORLD. 



[October, 1915. 



Houlletia Brocklehurstiana. 



HOULLETIA 

 BROCKLEHURSTIANA. 



THIS [4'eiius cunnneniorutes the luuiie of 

 M. Houllet, the discoverer ul tlie 

 type species m Brazil, who after his 

 return to hrance was appointed Curator, or 

 Chef des cultures, of the Jardin des Plantcs 

 at Paris. The cultural treatment of 

 Houlletias is very similar to that oi the 

 Stanhoi)eas, to which they are allied. A 

 lower temperature, such as is maintained in 

 the intermediate house, proves quite suitaljle. 



Houlletia Brocklehurstiana is the hand- 

 somest and best known s])ecics of the y^enus. 

 It was introduced from Rio de Janeiro by 

 Mr. Wanklyn, of Manchester, by whom it 

 was sent to Mr. Brocklehurst, of the Firs, near 

 Macclesfield, at that tunc the possessor of one 

 of the best collections in England, and in 

 which this plant flowered for the first time in 

 1S41, On the flowers bein^' sent to Dr. 

 Lindlc)" for identification he doulitfully 

 referred the species to Maxillaria, but 

 immediately afterwards removed it to 

 Houlletia on the puljlicalioii of that genus 



b)' the eminent French botanist, Adolphe 

 Brong'niart, in the Aniuilcs des Sciences 

 N a/ II relies. 



A short time previous to its introduction 

 into England this Orchid had been discovered 

 growing on trees at Corcovado, near Rio de 

 Janeiro, by Floullet, who accompanied M. 

 Guillemm on a mission to Brazil, and who 

 Ijrought lix ing sjiecimens to the Jardin des 

 Plantcs at Paris, where on flowering it was 

 constituted a new genus by M. Brongniart, 

 but who t)mitted to give it a specific name, 

 it was ne.vt detected on the Organ Mountains 

 b\' Gardner, and later by William Lobb, who 

 sent plants to Messrs. Veitch, of Exeter, in 

 1842. 



The sepals and petals are light red-brown 

 striated with pale yellow and spotted with 

 darker red-brown on the basal half; the 

 lateral se|nds with a dark sanguineous stain 

 on the inner side. The hypochile of the lip is 

 white, densely spotted with Ijlackish warts ; 

 the ascending curved horns whitish streaked 

 with red-purple ; the epichile covered with 

 blackish-jiurple warty asperities and light 

 ( 'range rc'.iculations. 



