1914 
* BRASAVÓLA cordáta. 
Heart-lipped Brasavola. 
o WB" 
x 12 = tip si 
"AGYNANDRIA MONANDRIA —— 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACER, $ EPIDENDRER. 
BRASAVOLA.— Supra, vol. 17. fol. 1465. 
À lg ES 4 4 ^ 
B. cordata; labello cordato acuminato integerrimo. ungue m longiore, sepalis 
petalisque linearibus acuminatis, clinandrio integerfimo posticè in dentem 
subulatum producto. i) 
x Ey j / 
à q (SI; 
A species of Orchidaceous plant, closely allied to B. no- 
dosa, already figured, at fol. 1465 of this work, from which 
it differs in its flowers being only half the size, with a cordate 
labellum, and a very different clinandrium. 
It was imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, who 
obligingly furnished me with/ the specimen from which the 
drawing was made in Janda 1836. 
There will be né certai do the cultivation of epiphytal 
Orchidacee till we become more precisely acquainted with 
the habits of the differentfspecies than we now are. At 
present it is usual to consider them all natives of trees in 
damp shady woods. “It is however quite certain that such is 
the habit of only some of them. The whole genus Brasavola, 
for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees, 
in open forest glades, fully exposed to the sun. | 
remarkable that no species of this genus. 
should occur in the extensive series of drawings of Brazilian 
Orchidace by M. Descourtilz, with which Baron Delessert 
f 
£ 
È * See fol. 1465. 
