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CONSPECTUS TABULARUM. 3 
Drscr.—Terrestrial. Stem 1-14 f. high, sheathed at base with re- 
mains of old leaves, bearing 2, 3, or rarely 4 leaves. Leaves on long 
sheaths, 5—6 inches long, 14-24 inches wide, of thin substance, semi- 
pellucid and veiny when dry, oblongo-lanceolate, acute or acumi- 
nate. Spike few or many flowered, 1-6 inches long, dense. Bracts 
sometimes only equalling the ovary, sometimes as long as the flowers, 
lanceolate, very acute. Flowers sky-blue or lilac, nearly two inches 
long, including the spur. Petals oblong, bluntly unidentate toward the 
base on the upper side, adhering to the sides of the funnel-shaped, very 
long spurred, acuminate back sepal, and thus forming a galea. Lateral 
La oblong, subacute, unequal-sided. Labellum very minute, erect, 
ear. 
The genus Brownleea was founded, in 1841, on the present plant 
and a small-flowered species (B. parviflora), both discovered by the Rev. 
J. Brownlee, for many years a missionary in Caffraria, and an observing 
naturalist. It is related to Disa, but distinguished by the adhesion of 
the petals to the back sepal, and of the labellum to the column. 
Fig. 1, spike and upper leaves; 2, lower leaf and base of stem; natural size. Fig. 3, 
back sepal (galea) ; 4, petal ; 5, lateral sepal; 6, front view, and 7, side view of column 
and labellum; 8, the labellum removed; 9, pollen mass, caudicle and gland; all 
enlarged, 
104. BROWNLEEA RECURVATA, Sond. ( Orchidee.) 
B. recurvata: foliis caulinis binis rigidiusculis striatis lineari- 
lanceolatis acuminatis, spica pluriflora, bracteis ovato-lanceolatis acu- 
minatis flores subequantibus, sepalis oblongo-lanceolatis acutis, galea 
acuminata apice recurva breviter infundibuliformi in calear deorsum 
arcuatum ovario brevius producta, labello minimo subulato.—Sond. in 
Linn. 19, p. 107. 
Haz.—At the Eland’s River, Uit., Ecklon & Zeyher. On the Katberg, 3400 feet, H. 
Hutton, March. (Herb. T. C. D.) 
Descr.—Terrestrial. Stem 1-1} f. high, sheathing. Leaves on 
longish sheaths, the lower one 3-5 inches long, 4—4 lines wide, the upper 
shorter and narrower, both rib-striate and closely many-nerved, rigid 
when dry. Spike 8-12 flowered. Bracts generally longer than the 
ovary, wider than in B. cwrulea. Flowers 7-9 lines long, lilac-colour. 
Petals somewhat falcate, unequal sided. Spur of the galea cylindrical, 
2 line diameter, inflexed at end, and blunt; apex of galea attenuated 
and recurved. Lateral sepals more acute and lanceolate than in B. 
eerulea. 
A well-marked species, with flowers smaller than in B. cerulea, 
but much larger and less numerous than in B. parviflora, whose flowers 
are white. Mr. Hutton says that he thinks he also once found it ‘‘ about 
1854, on a high mountain, six miles from Grahamstown.” 
Fig. 1, spike and upper leaf; 2, lower leaf and base of stem; natural size. Fig. 3, 
back sepal (galea); 4, petal; 5, lateral sepal ; 6, front view, and 7, side view of column 
and labellum; 8, the labellum removed. a“ 
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