1754 



* BRASSIA Lanceana. 



M'7\ Lance s I^rassia, 



GYNANDRIA MONANDJilA. 



Nat. ord. Orchideje § Vandeje, Lindl. {Introduction to the Natural 

 System of Botany, p, 262.) 



BRASSIA.—Supra, vol. 10. fol. 832. 



B. Lanceana ; sepalis ovato-lanceolatls acuminatis, petalis mlnoribus, labello 

 oblongo acuminato undulato sepalis lateralibus duplo breviore. 

 Color totius herboi amoenc et dijfiiso viridis. Pseudobulbi densi,oblongi, 

 macri, compressissimi, ancipites, longitudinaliter sulcali, hand raru arcuati. 

 Folia bina aut solitaria, oblonyo-lanceolata, macra, valde striata. Raceml 

 radicates, foliis longiores , Jioribus magnis luteis secundis odorem Primulcn 

 suavissimum spirantibus onusti. Bracteoe ovatce, concavcB, breves, membra- 

 nacecB. Sepala patentissima, lineari-lanceolata, purpureo paululum macu- 

 lata, basi virescentia ; supremum 1^, lateralia 2 poll, longa. Petala ejus- 

 dem formce et coloris sed sepalo supremo duplo minora. Labellum luteum, 

 immaculatum, oblongum, undulatum, fere repandum, acuminatum, sepalis 

 lateralibus duplo brevius ; basi tuberculis 2 albis oblongis contiquis paral- 

 lelis inanibus pubescentibus, dentibusque tolidem membranaceis in fronte. 



A native of Surinam, in woods, where it was found grow- 

 ing upon trees by John Henry Lance, Esq. ; and by him 

 presented to the Horticultural Society in 1833. It is also 

 wild in Brazil, where it was found by Dr. von Martius upon 

 the trees on the banks of the river Jui, one of the tributaries 



* 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 in his visit to Sierra Leone, were maliciously damaged, and partly 

 destroyed out of characteristic and wanton brutality by some piratical slave-mon- 

 gers under the French flag, during the late war. — Smith in Rees' Cyclopcedia. 



