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Burlingtonia (According to Bentham)

According to Bentham and Hooker, Rodriguezia is the correct name of this genus, which comprises about twenty species, natives of tropical America, from Brazil as far as Central America. To those described on p. 225, Vol. I., the following should now be added:

B. caloplectron (beautiful-spurred). A synonym of Rodriguezia caloplectron. B. Farmeri (Farmer's). fl. white and yellow, freely produced. Early summer. Native country unknown. A pretty species, resembling B. candida. It should be grown on a block, or in a basket with Sphagnum.

B. Knowlesii (Knowles'). fl. white, with a faint tinge of lilacpink, disposed in long racemes. Autumn. Native country unknown. A scarce but beautiful species, resembling B. venusta.