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BRASAVÓLA* nodósa. 
Knotty Brasavola. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. OncnuipEx Juss. Tribus Epidendree Lindl. (Introduction 
to the natural system of Botany, p. 262.) 
BRASAVOLA R. Br.— Sepala et petala subeequalia, libera, acuminata. 
Labellum cucullatum, integrum, columnam involvens. Columna morginata, 
clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio posticé tridentato. Pollinia 8, 
subeequalia, quibusdam aliis parvis interjectis. Anthera 4-locularis, septis 
marginatis, loculis semibipartitis. Herbee caulescentes, epiphyte, apice 
folium unicum alterumve semicylindraceum, carnosum, suprà sulcatum, apice 
subulatum gerentes. Flores terminales, magni, speciosi.—Gen. et sp. Orchid. 
part 2. p. 114. 
B. nodosa ; labello ovato acuminato integerrimo, petalis sepalisque linearibus 
acuminatis, dentibus lateralibus clinandrii integris posticá emarginata. 
Epidendrum curassavicum Orchidi affine. Herm. parad. 187. t. 187. 
Viscum delphinii flore minus, etc. Sloane jam. 1. 251. t. 125. f. 1. 
Epidendrum nodosum. Linn. sp. pl. 1350. Jacg. Amer. 226. t. 140. 
Swartz obs. 398. 
Cymbidium nodosum. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6. 73. Willd. no. 24. 
Brassavola nodosa. Lindl. gen. et sp. Orchid. part 2. p. 114. 
Rhizoma repens inter muscos supra arbores, caules basi clavatos, sursim 
teretes monophyllos emittens, squamá membranaced fuscá involutos. Folia 
semipedalia, solitaria, carnosa, subtús convexa, supra canaliculata. Spice 
3-4-flore, foliis breviores, bracteis minutis, squamiformibus. F lores die 
tnodori, noctu odoratissimi, pallidi, luteo-virides. Sepala linearia, acu- 
minata, extüs levia, sanguineo punctata, patentissima. Petala conformia, 
patentissima, angustiora, impunctata. Labellum album, limbo ovato-sub- 
rotundo, acuto, integerrimo, plano, ungue dimidio breviore, arcte convoluto, 
margine eroso, intüs sanguineo guttato. Columna wngue labelli duplà 
brevior, clinandrii dente posticá emarginatd, anticis integerrimis. Anthera 
4-locularis, dissepimentis marginatis, loculis bipartitis. Pollinia 8, quater- 
natim paululàm minoribus, massulis 2-3 interjectis. 
* Named after Antonio Musa Brasavolo, a noble Venetian, who was one 
of the most enlightened Botanists of his day. A worthy pupil of Leonicenus 
and Manardus, he corrected the errors of Dioscorides and Pliny, in his 
Examen omnium simplicium Medicamentorum, a work of much reputation in 
its day, published at Leyden in 1537. 
