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Barkeria (This genus is now included)

This genus is now included, by the authors of the "Genera Plantarum," under Epidendrum. To the species described on p. 158, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. Barkeriola (Barkeriola). A synonym of Epidendrum Barkeriola. B. cyclotella (circular). fl. very showy, disposed in a terminal raceme; sepals and petals deep magenta; lip white, margined magenta, broad, emarginate. February and March. l. distichous, ligulate-oblong, acute. Stems as thick as a quill. Mexico. (W. O. A. iv. 148.) B. elegans nobilior (nobler). A fine, large-flowered variety, having a blackish-purple spot on the lip. 1886.

B. Vanneriana (Vanner's). fl. fine rosy-purple, with a small, whitish disk on the lip, equal in shape to those of B. Lindleyana; lip rounded, acute, much like that of B. Skinneri. 1885. A fine plant, intermediate in character between the two species named.