Tas. 4734. 
BRASSAVOLA .uiNnzEaATA. 
Tine-leaved Brassavola. 
Nat. Ord. OrncHIDEH.—GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 
Gen. Char. (Vide supra, Tas. 4474.) 
Brassavoua lineata; folio tereti elongato acuminato inferne attenuato antice 
sulcato, pedunculo radicali bifloro, floribus magnis pendentibus, sepalis pe- 
talisque lineari-lanceolatis conformibus, labelli ungue elongato integro, la- 
mina ampla cordato-acuminata longitudinaliter plicato-striata. 
From the stove of Messrs. Jackson’s nursery at Kingston ; it 
was purchased at one of the sales of Mr. Warsowitz’s South 
American Orchidez in London, in 1852, and produced its large 
blossoms, here represented, in June, 1853. In the general 
shape and size of the flower, it approaches nearest perhaps to the 
Brassavola venosa, as represented at our Tab. 4021; but the 
great lamina of the lip is striated with longitudinal plicee, the 
leaves are long, terete, and, what is remarkable in our plant, and 
in which it differs from most of the species known to me, the two- 
flowered peduncle springs from the caudex, or, in fact, is radical, 
not terminal, as the genus is described to be, or from the apex 
of the short stem at the base of the leaf*. 
Duscr. Epiphyte. From a short, creeping, jointed, terete 
caudex, there arise a few, short, cylindrical stems, clothed with a 
greyish sheath, and bearing each, jointed on to the apex, a long, 
almost terete, but grooved on one side, dark-green, fleshy, but 
rigid, curved Zeaf, tapering at the apex, and attenuated at the 
base: these leaves are pendent. From the same caudex also ap- 
pears a short, declined, two-flowering, terete peduncle, with large, 
nearly white, drooping flowers. Sepals and petals uniform, 
moderately spreading, between linear-lanceolate and subulate, 
* Since the above was written Dr. Lindley has referred me to Brassavola 
llied to but different from 
acaulis, Paxton’s Flower Garden, vol. ii. p. 152, as a ? 
this, in its short leaves, one-flowered peduncle, and short unguis. 
SEPTEMBER lst, 1853, 
