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BRASAVOLA okuci. 

 Glaucous Brasavola. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 

 Nat. ord. OrchidacevE, § Epidendre^. 

 BRASAVOLA. Botanical Register, fol. 1465. 



glauca ; foliis coriaceis oblongis obtusis planiusculis glaucis, spatha uni- 

 flora, sepalis petalisque liueari-lanceolatis obtusis herbaceis, labello sub- 

 sessili subrotundo acuto margine lobato, cliuandrio dentato dente dorsali 

 apice glanduloso. Bot. Reg. 1839, ynisc. no. 67. 



glauca. Bateman's Orchidacece oj" Mexico and Guatemala, i. 16. 



It is said that this charming plant was originally found 

 near Xalapa in Mexico, by Henchman, and that it was after- 

 wards imported more abundantly by a Frenchman of the name 

 of Deschamps, who brought over a large quantity of Orchida- 

 cea3 and Cacti for sale some years ago.* To me it was first 

 made known by its having been gathered near Vera Cruz by 

 Mr. Hartweg, who sent it among his earliest consignments to 

 the Horticultural Society. It has since been received from 

 Guatemala, where Mr. Skinner found it growing on the oaks 

 of the country in company with Cyrtochilum maculatum var. 

 Russellianum, like which he directs it to be treated. He calls 



* Upon this subject Mr. Bateman has given tbe following note in his 

 splendid work above quoted. " This importation was quite unique in its way, 

 and formed a sort of epoch in the history of the Orchido-mania. A vessel 

 came into port freighted, almost exclusively, with Epiphytes and Cacti, and 

 such was their abundance, that it was found necessary to engage an extensive 

 suite of apartments, for their accommodation, in Hungerford Market! The 

 plan pursued by M. Deschamps was, to parcel out his plants in small collec- 

 tions of about twenty species, for which, in the first instance, he asked and 

 obtained very high prices ; but the London market being at length exhausted, 

 similar collections were distributed through the provinces, and offered at 

 greatly reduced rates. The author himself purchased, in a country town, a 

 set of at least twenty kinds for a sum which, in the metropohs, he had in 

 vain tendered for only two ! In case of any future inundation of Orchidacea.% 

 this httle fact should be borne in mind." 



