I
n . .Vi.
i
•i i
E M I A S r E T A B II 1 II S ,
TAB XXXIII.
BARKERIA' SPECTABILIS:
SIIJ^WY BARKERIA.
BARiimiiA g]}ectabilis; caulibiis brevibus foliosts 2-4 phyllis racemo laxo multifloro suba-qualibiis :
sepalis lineari-lanceolatis, petalis ovatis acuminatis, labello ovato-lanceolato tricarinato.
Habitat in Guatemala.KmHAUTWEG. In Jfca-FCO.—KARWINSKI
Q e s c r i i J t t o n .
STEMS cylindrical, four or Jive inches high, each of which beur.^ two to fovr jMiy, lanceolatu,
acute LEAVES, separated from each other by intervals of ahnnt an inch. RACENE rising out of
some broivn dry sheaths, hearing from three to twelve most lovely nodding blossoms. The exjmnded
FLOWERS are nearly three inches and. a half wide, their colour is bright lilac. The SEPALS are
linear-lanceolate; the PETALS ovate-lanceolate and unspotted; but the LIP is white at ¿he base
and in the middle, lilac, at the edge and point, and richly marked joith small blood-red spots. Along
its middle, below the column, are Jive purple lines, which pass into three elevated colourless ridges,
beyond the place where the anther touches the lip.—Lindl. Dot. Reg. Misc. 45, 1842.
T i n s beautifal Barkeria has been frequently received fronv Mexico and Guatemala, but the plants
were almost invariably infested by the deadly white scale (too well known to cultivators), and, after lingering
a few seasons, pined and died. Some noble specimens, collected by Mr . IIAUTWBG, and received under
move favourable auspices by the Horticultural Society, were tlie iirst to flower, and from one of tlicse tlic
accompanying figure -W-as obtaine d in May, 1842, in the Society's garden at Chiswick. Mi-s. WRAY, of
Cheltenham, to whom the species was sent by Mr. SKINNEK, has also succeeded in flowering it in high
perfection, tlie secret of her success being obviously the comparat ively moderate temperature maintained in her
stoves, and which appears to b e exactly adapted to the Orchidaceai of the more elevated districts of Guatemala.
Baskets filled with moss, or blocks of wood, are foimd to be most congenial to the roots of tliis Barlicria
in peat they perish directly.
I n the monster below, disinterred by Mr . SKINNER near Tstapa, we have anotlier, but by no means
prepossessing specimen of the sculpture of the early Mexicans. It was most kindly drawn for this work
b y Mr s . R A N D L E WILDAHAÄC.
l'i
J
• BATKMA «.PN SFL. XXV[I1,