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BURLINGTONIA RIGIDA. 
stem ascends, developing a new bulb at its summit ; and from around the base of 
this bulb a quantity of roots depend, which are very little thicker than a strong 
thread, of great length, most pleasing diversity of form and direction, and a snowy 
whiteness. Each year another stem arises above the last-formed pseudo-bulb, again 
producing a new bulb and its attendant roots at its apex ; and as these stems are 
attached to a barrel-shaped wire trellis, the effect of the whole is in the strongest 
degree delightful. 
When the specimen acquires an age and condition suitable for flowering, the 
scape is protruded from the sheath which 
envelops the base of the youngest pseudo- 
bulbs, and rises erectly for four or five 
inches, being yet more gracile than the 
stems, and bearing near its summit three, 
four, or more large pinkish- white blossoms. 
These are expanded about the month of 
April, and continue open many weeks. 
No particular treatment is demanded. 
The best way of managing it, however, is 
to place it in a wire basket containing 
sphagnum moss and potsherds, and sus- 
pend it in the lower part of the house ; if 
hung too high, it will lose much of its 
interest. It must be kept in a moist, 
warm, shaded house while growing, and in 
a more moderate temperature and drier at- 
mosphere during winter. It can be pro- 
pagated by severing the stem just below 
the uppermost pseudo-bulb, and treating 
the latter as an independent plant. 
The genus was dedicated by Dr. Lindley 
to the late Countess of Burlington, a lady 
of whom it is needless to say more, than 
that the admirable species which bear her 
name furnish a peculiarly significant me- 
morial of her character ; and that both 
will be cherished after the present genera- 
tion has passed away. 
