. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. BROUGHTONIA. 131 B. MACULATA MAJOR, HoH.—k. very free-flowering form of the older species. The sepals and petals arc greenish yellow spotted with brown, and the lip is white spotted with dark brown; it flowers in May and June, and lasts for five weeks in bloom if kept in a cool-house.—Jamaica. B. VERRUCOSA, Liiidley.—^A curious species, in which the upper part of the flower is pale green, and the lip white, marked with green warts. It blossoms abundantly in
. The orchid-grower's manual, containing descriptions of the best species and varieties of orchidaceous plants in cultivation ... Orchids. BROUGHTONIA. 131 B. MACULATA MAJOR, HoH.—k. very free-flowering form of the older species. The sepals and petals arc greenish yellow spotted with brown, and the lip is white spotted with dark brown; it flowers in May and June, and lasts for five weeks in bloom if kept in a cool-house.—Jamaica. B. VERRUCOSA, Liiidley.—^A curious species, in which the upper part of the flower is pale green, and the lip white, marked with green warts. It blossoms abundantly in May and June.—Guatemala. Fig.—Batim. Orcli. Mcx. ct Gnat., t. 22. Syn.—0/widlmn vcrrucuA-iim. B. VERRUCOSA GRANDIFLORA, TFiiZiams.—A very fine variety, of stronger growth than the typical B. verrucosa, and with flowers twice the size, and of a lighter colour. This is one of the best of the genus we have seen, and is well worth a place in every collection.—Gimtemala. BROUGHTONIA, Robert Broicn. (^Tribo Epidendreae, .nMrihe Laelieae.) A small genus of epiphytes, which is included in Epidendrum by Reichenbach. It belongs to the series of Laelieae having four pollen masses, and thus technically comes near to Gattleya, with which it agrees in the lip folding over the apodous column, but differs in having the ovary produced into a long hollow neck or cavity. Some three or four species are known, natives of the West Indies; B. sanr/uinea, the most familiar species, is com- mon in the Islands of Cuba and Jamaica, more especially the latter, where it grows on rocks fully exposed to the in- fluence of the sun. —This plant suc- ceeds best suspended from the roof on a block of wood, with a little moss, and as near the light as possible. It requires a good supply of heat and moisture in the growing season. It is propagated by separating the pseudobulbs. B. SANGUINEA, R. Brown.—^A very compact-growing evergreen epiphyte, with roundish ovate clustered pseudobulbs
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