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BRASAVOLA glauca. 
Glaucous Brasavola. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. Oncutpacea, $ EPIDENDREZ. 
BRASAVOLA. Botanical Register, fol. 1465. 
B. glauca ; foliis coriaceis oblongis obtusis planiusculis glaucis, spathá uni- 
florá, sepalis petalisque lineari-lanceolatis obtusis herbaceis, labello sub- 
sessili subrotundo acuto margine lobato, clinandrio dentato dente dorsali 
apice glanduloso. Bot. Reg. 1839, mise. no. 67. 
B. glauca. Bateman's Orchidacee of Mexico and Guatemala, t. 16. 
It is said that this charming plant was originally found 
near Xalapa in Mexico, by Henchman, and that it was after- 
wards imported more abundantly by a Frenchman of the name 
of Deschamps, who brought over a large quantity of Orchida- 
cee and Cacti for sale some years ago.* ‘To me it was first 
made known by its having been gathered near Vera Cruz by 
Mr. Hartweg, who sent it among his earliest consignments to 
the Horticultural Society. It has since been received from 
Guatemala, where Mr. Skinner found it growing on the oaks 
of the country in company with Cyrtochilum maculatum var. 
Russellianum, like which he directs it to be treated. He calls 
* Upon this subject Mr. Bateman has given the following note in his 
splendid work above quoted. . ** This importation was quite unique in its way, 
and formed a sort of epoch in the history of the Orchido-mania. A vessel 
came into port freighted, almost exclusively, with Epiphytes and Cacti, and 
such was their abundance, that it was found necessary to engage an extensive 
suite of apartments, for their accommodation, in Hungerford Market! The 
plan pursued by M. Deschamps was, to parcel out his plants in small collec- 
tions of about twenty species, for which, in the first instance, he asked and 
obtained very high prices ; but the London market being at length exhausted, 
similar collections were distributed through the provinces, and offered at 
greatly reduced rates. The author himself purchased, in a country town, a 
set of at least twenty kinds for a sum which, in the metropolis, he had in 
vain tendered for only two! Incase of any futureinundation of Orchidacec, 
this little fact should be borne in mind.” 
