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Bouvier Bourgmeister – Boophane

Bouvier Bourgmeister

Fruit medium, obovate; eye small, half-open; skin pale yellow, spotted with bright russet; flesh buttery, melting, juicy, of very excellent flavour. November.

British Queen

Fruit medium, short-pyriform; eye small; skin smooth, orange-yellow, slightly flushed; flesh juicy, melting, buttery, and rich. October. Quality at times somewhat variable.

Barbarossa

See Gros Guillaume.

Black July

Fruit deep purple, small, round; flesh sweet, juicy, not rich; bunches small, loose. An early Sweetwater Grape.

Black Morocco

Fruit purplish-red, large, long-ovate; flesh very firm, juicy, with a rich, sparkling flavour; bunches large, long-tapering, generally badly set. A handsome, late Grape.

Black Prince

Fruit deep bluish-black, with a thick bloom, medium-sized, ovate, always well set; flesh dark, juicy and sweet, but not rich; bunches very long-tapering. A handsome, early, free-fruiting Sweetwater Grape.

Bakeria

Included under Plerandra (which see).

Barrotia

Included under Pandanus (which see).

Batemannia

According to Bentham and Hooker, this is now a monotypic genus, the only true species being B. Colleyi. Several of the species have been transferred to Zygopetalum (which see).

Billiottia

(of Brown). A synonym of Agonis (which see).

Bollea Pulvinaris

This does not appear to differ from Zygopetalum coeleste (which see, on page 245).

Boophane

See Buphane.