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BRASAVOLA ven6sa. 

 Vein-lipped Brasavola. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDBIA. 

 Nat. Ord. Orchidace^ § EpidendrevE. 

 BRASAVOLA. Botanical Register, fol. 1465. 



Brasavola venosa ,• folio lanceolato semicylindraceo supra canaliculato, sepalis 

 petalisque linearibus, labelli ungue longo complicato lamina subrotundo- 

 ovata subtriloba acuminata basi serrata: venis elevatis. Bot. Reg. 1840. 

 misc. no. 24. 



Folium semi2)edale, camosum, lineari-oblongum, acutu7n, atroviride, cana- 

 liculatum marginibus rotundatis, necut in speciebus pluribus in cylindrum con- 

 volutum. Scapus folio breviot; spathd nulla conspicud, sed sqiiamis paucis 

 vaginatus, 3-Jlorus ; bracteis jjarvis rigidis acutissimis. Sepala et petala line- 

 aria, acuminata, virentia, 2-pollicaria, inter se cequalia. Labelli lamina Can- 

 dida, venis elevatis corrugata, subrotundo-ovata, acuminata, subcarnosa, integra 

 V. obsolete triloba, basi serrata ; unguis lamina parum brevior, convoluta, mar- 

 gine serrata, basi integerrima et macidis quibusdam sanguineis notata. 



A fine species resembling B. nodosa in habit, but with 

 much larger flowers, the sepals being more than two inches 

 long. The lip is white, the other parts greenish. It is at 

 once distinguished from B. nodosa and all the allied species 

 by the firmness of the lip, which is more or less evidently 

 lobed at the side, and has the veins distinctly elevated. The 

 flowers are deliciously sweet at night. Messrs. Loddiges im- 

 ported it from Honduras. 



The leaf is intermediate between that of Br. glauca and 

 the common terete species ; and shews that in the latter the 

 leaf owes its peculiar appearance in part to a general thicken- 

 ing of its parenchyma, and in part to the edges turning 

 inwards, meeting and growing together. And this is no 

 doubt also the origin of the terete leaves found in Vanda, 

 Luisia, and Dendrobium. 



It has been recommended to grow the plants of this genus 



