1754 
* BRASSIA Lanceána. 
Mr. Lance's Brassia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORcHipE= $ Vanoea, Lindl. (Introduction to the Natural 
System of Botany, p. 262.) 
BRASSIA.—Supra, vol. 10. fol. 832. 
B. Lanceana ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis minoribus, labello 
oblongo acuminato undulato sepalis lateralibus dupló breviore. 
Color totius herbe amené et diffuso viridis. Pseudobulbi densi, oblongi, 
macri, compressissimi, ancipites, longitudinaliter sulcati, haud raré arcuati. 
Folia bina aut solitaria, oblongo-lanceolata, macra, valdě striata. © Racemi 
radicales, foliis longiores, floribus magnis luteis secundis odorem Primule 
suavissimum spirantibus onusti. Bractew ovate, concave, breves, membra- 
nacee. Sepala patentissima, lineari-lanceolata, purpureo paululum macu- 
lata, basi virescentia ; supremum 13, lateralia 2 poll. longa. Petala ejus- 
dem forme et coloris sed sepalo supremo duplo minora. Labellum luteum, 
immaculatum, oblongum, undulatum, ferč repandum, acuminatum, sepalis 
lateralibus duplo brevius ; basi tuberculis 2 albis oblongis contiguis paral- 
lelis inanibus pubescentibus, dentibusque totidem membranaceis in fronte. 
A native of Surinam, in woods, where it was found grow- 
ing upon trees by John Henry Lance, Esq.; and by him 
presented to the Horticultural Society in 1833. It is also 
wild in Brazil, where it was found by Dr. von Martius upon 
the trees on the banks of the river Jui, one of the tributaries 
:* Thus named by Mr. Brown in due commemoration of the late Mr. Brass, a 
skilful botanical traveller and draughtsman, who collected seeds, plants, and dried 
specimens on the Guinea Coast for Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Fothergill and Dr. 
Pitcairn, and whose sketches being most liberally lent by Sir Joseph Banks to 
Dr. Afzelius in his visit to Sierra Leone, were maliciously damaged, and partly 
destroyed out of characteristic and wanton brutality by some piratical slave-mon- 
gers under the French flag, during the late war.—Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia. 
