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BRASAVOLA Digbyana. 
Mr. Digby’s Brasavola. 
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GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Nat. ord. ORCHIDACEE. $ EPIDENDREZ—LELIADE. (ORCHIDS, 
Vegetable Kingdom, p. 181.) 
BRASAVOLA. Botanical Register, fol. 1465. 
Br. Digbyana ; foliis ovalibus planis carnosis glaucis, labello sessili cucullato 
cordato subtrilobo margine in crinis longis soluto in disco callo maximo 
aucto, dente postico subulato incumbente. 
This very singular plant was introduced from Honduras 
by Mrs. McDonald, and by that lady given to Edward St. 
Vincent Digby, Esq. with whom it flowered last July, at Min- 
terne, in Dorsetshire. Its huge yellowish white flowers are 
as sweet as those of Aerides odoratum ; and the largest mea- 
sure nearly three inches in diameter. The neck of the ovary, 
which is cuniculate in a remarkable degree, is full four inches 
long. 
We have not seen the pollen-masses of the plant ; but it is 
so much like Br. glauca in habit, that we entertain little doubt 
of their belonging to the same genus. There are, however, 
some peculiarities in the structure of this plant, which must 
not be lost sight of. Its anther-bed has no fringes or other 
process at the edge, but is deeply sunk and guarded behind 
by along subulate tooth, which curves over the anther (fig. 1), 
and the stigma has three linear fovez, which all open into 
one compressed stigmatic passage. 
The singular fringe that borders the lip is quite analogous 
to what occurs in Br. cucullata and others, only it is here 
extremely extended, so as to give the flower quite a shaggy 
appearance. 
October, 1846. U 
