Tas. XXII. 
BRASSIA’ VERRUCOSA: 
WARTY-LIPPED BRASSIA. 
Trisus: VANDE.—Linptevy. 
BRASSIA. &. Brown in Hort. Kew. ed. 2, 5, 215.—Lindley Gen. et Spe. Orchid. cxxxii. 
Pertanruivum explanatum. Sepala et petala angusta, libera; his sepius 
minoribus. Labellum planum, indivisum, ecalearatum, column4 continuum, basi 
bi-cristatum. Columna libera, aptera, nana. Anthera 1-locularis. Pollinia 2, 
posticé suleata, caudicula brevi, glandulé crassi.—Herbe Americane epiphyte 
pseudo-bulbose. Folia pergamenea. Scapi radicales vaginati. Flores speciosi, 
spicati. 
Brassra verrucosa; pseudo-bulbis compressis diphyllis margine obtusis, foliis ligulato-oblongis acutis 
scapo gracili multifloro duplo brevioribus, sepalis ovato-lanceolatis acuminatis, petalis minoribus acutis, 
labello petalis longitudine equali unguiculato obovato apiculato: basi verrucis crebris munito. 
Description, 
PSEUDO-BULBS compressed, ovate, furrowed, obtuse at the edges, three or four inches long, and 
usually clustered. LEAVES two on each pseudo-bulb, oblong, strap-shaped, acute, varying in length 
Srom half a foot to a foot and a half. Scare radical, slender, about two feet high, bearing about 
a dozen flowers in a crowded raceme at its extremity. SEPALs ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, very 
slightly undulate, the upper one two inches and a half, the lower nearly three inches long, pale green, 
sprinkled near the base with small dark spots. PETALS scarcely more than half the length of the 
sepals, but of the same colour and form. Lip unguiculate, heart-shaped, acuminate, channelled 
down the centre, and provided at the base with two parallel glands,—whitish in the upper part, but 
in the lower curiously covered with green warts. CoLtumn dwarf, light green. 
THE genus Brassia is so nearly related to Odontoglossum, that a country known to abound in the 
one, might naturally be expected to offer numerous examples of the other ;—it is, therefore, singular that, 
among the vast numbers of new Orchidacee which have of late years been imported from Mexico and 
Guatemala, not a single species of Brassia should have been found, until Messrs. Rotiisson were so 
fortunate as to introduce the subject of the accompanying plate, which, if not so brilliant in its colours as 
B. Lanceana or B. macrostachya, is superior to either in the elegance of its habit. Messrs. Rotiisson 
received their plant from Mexico, but the species has more recently been discovered in Guatemala, where 
—judging from the aspect of the specimens imported—there probably are many varieties. 
* Thus named by Mr. Brown in due commemoration of the late Mr. Brass, a skilful botanical traveller and draughtsman, who collected seeds, 
plants, and dried specimens, on the Guinea coast, for Sir Joseph Banks, Dr. Fothergill, and Dr. Pitcairn, and whose sketches being most liberally lent 
by Sir Joseph Banks to Dr. Afzelius, on his visit to Sierra Leone, were maliciously damaged and partly destroyed, out of characteristic and wanton 
brutality, by some piratical slave-mongers, under the French flag, during the late war.—Smith in Rees’ Cyclopedia. 
