Tas. 7309. 
BROWNLEEA O@RULEA, 
Native of South Africa. 
Nat. Ord. Oncnipex. Tribe OrurrpEa. 
Genus Browntzxa, Harv. ; (Benth. & Hook. f. Gen. Pl. vol, iii. p. 631). 
BrowniEka corulea; tubere amorpho lobato, caule gracili paucifoliato, foliig 
sessilibus v. breviter petiolatis ovatis lanceolatisve acuminatis 3-costatis, 
spica laxe multiflora, bracteis lanceolatis ovaria eequantibus, floribus 
allide ceeruleis punctis saturate violaceis conspersis, sepalo dorsali erecto 
infundibulari in calcar elongatum rectum v. lente flexuosum horizontale 
apice clavellatum attenuato, sepalis lateralibus porrectis oblongis obtusis, 
petalis ori-sepali dorsali coherentibus acinaciformibus, labello brevissimo 
marginibus column adnato medio in processum parvum erectum obtusum 
(lobum medium) instructo. 
B. coerulea, Harv. ex Lindl. in Hook. Lond. Journ. Bot. vol. i. (1842) p. 16, 
Harv. Thes. Capens, vol. ii. p. 2, t. 103. 
B. macroceras, Sond. in Linnza, vol. xix. (1847) p. 106, 
B. madagascarica, Ridley in Journ. Linn. Soc. vol. xxii. (1887) p. 126, 
The genus Brownleea, which consists of three species 
of South African terrestrial Orchids, was founded by 
Lindley on two of the species, of which one is here 
figured. Lindley describes the genus as having the habit 
of Disa, adding, “but the petals (unless I greatly err) 
cohere with the posterior sepal, and the labellum, which is 
exceedingly minute, is reflected back on the column to 
Which its margins adhere, whilst its inner or upper surface 
18 free; thus forming a little pouch.” Of the above 
characters the only one of importance in distinguishing 
Brownleea from Disa, is the small upturned lip, for the 
adhesion of the petals to the dorsal sepal is probably 
apparent only, and due to drying (as I have found to be 
the case in Habenaria and other genera). In the Genera 
Plantarum (Key to the Genera of Orchids, iii. 487) 
Brownleea is erroneously described as having no spur, and 
in the body of that work (p. 631) as having an erect 
concave or helmet-shaped odd sepal without a spur; and 
Avevust Isz, 1893, 
