1914 



* BRASAV(3lA cordaia. 

 Heart-lipped Brasavola. 



GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. OacHiDACEiE, § Epidendre^e. 

 BR ASAVOLA .—Supra, vol. M.fol. 1465. 



B. cordata; labello cordato acumlnato integerrimo ungue parum lonoriore, sepalis 

 petalisque linearibus acuminatls, clinandrio integerrimo postice in dentem 

 subulatum producto. 



A species of Orchidaceous plant, closely allied to B. no- 

 dosa, already figured at fol. 1465 of this work, from which 

 it differs in its flowers being only half the size, with a cordate 

 labellum, and a very different clinandrium. 



It was imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, who 

 obligingly furnished me with the specimen from which the 

 drawing was made in January 1836. 



There will be no certainty in the cultivation of epiphytal 

 Orchidaceae till we become more precisely acquainted with 

 the habits of the different species than we now are. At 

 present it is usual to consider them all natives of trees in 

 damp shady woods. It is however quite certain that such is 

 the habit of onl}' some of them. The whole genus Brasavola, 

 for example, grows upon stones and rocks, never upon trees, 

 in open forest glades, fully exposed to the sun. 



It is not a little remarkable that no species of this genus 

 should occur in the extensive series of drawings of Brazilian 

 Orchidacese by M. Dcscourtilz, with which Baron Delcsscrt 



* See fol. 1 465. 



