1465 



BRASAVOLA* nodosa. 

 K)iottji Brasfd'o/a. 



(;VNANDKIA MONANDRIA. 



Nat. ord. Orciiide.t. Juss. Tribus Epidendrcce Lindl. {Introduction 

 to the natural systctn of Botany, p. 262.) 



BRASA VOLA R. Br. — Scpala et pctala subooqualia, libera, acuminata. 

 Labellum cucullatuni, integrum, columnam involvcns. Columna mart^inata, 

 clavata, stigmate infundibulari, clinandrio posticc tridentato. Pollinia 8, 

 subanjualia, (juibusdam aliis parvis interjectis. Antkera 4-locularis, scptis 



marginatis, loculis semibipartitis. Ilerba; caulcsccntes, epiphytes, apice 



folium unicum alterumvc scmicylindraceuni, carnosum, supra sulcatum, apice 

 subulutum gcrentcs. Flores terminales, viagni, speciosi. — Gen. etsp. Orchid, 

 part 2. p. 114. 



B. nodosa ; labello ovato acuminate intogerrimo, petalis sepalisque linearibus 



acuminatis, dcntibus lateralibus clinandrii intcgris postica emarginata. 

 Kpidendrum curassavicum Orchidi affine. Herm. parad. 187. t. 187. 

 \ iscum delphinii Hore minus, etc. Sloajie jatn. 1. 251. t. \25.f. 1. 

 Epidendrum nodosum. Linn. sp. j}l. 1350. Jacq. Amer. 226. /. 140. 



Suartz obs. 328. 

 Cymbidium nodosum. Swartz nov. act. ups. 6. 73. Willd. no. 24. 

 Brassavola nodosa. Lindl. gen. et sp. Orchid, part 2. p. 114. 



Rhizoma repens inter muscos supra arbores, caules basi clavatos, sursitm 

 tcretes inonophyllos emittens, squamd mcmbranaced fused involutos. Folia 

 scmipedalia, solitaria, carnosa, subtiis convexa, siiprd canaliculata. Spicaj 

 2-A-florcE, foliis breviorcs, bracttis minutis, squamiformibus. Flores die 

 inodori, noctu odoratissimi, pallidi, lutco-virides. Sepala linearia, acu- 

 minata, extiis lavia, sanguinco punctata, patentissiina. Petala conformia, 

 patentissima, angustiora, impunctata. Labellum album, limbo ovato-sub- 

 rotundo, acuto, integerrimo, piano, ungue dimidio brcviore, arctc convolnio, 

 margins croso, intiis sanguinco guttata. Columna ungue labelli duplb 

 brevior, clinandrii dente postica cmarginatd, anticis integcrrimis. Anlhera 

 A-loculaiis, disscpimentis marginatis, loculis bipartitis. Pollinia 8, quater- 

 natim paululiim. minoribus, massulis 2-3 interjectis. 



* Named after Antonio Musa Brasavolo, a noble Venetian, who was one 

 of the most enlightened Botanists of his day. A worthy [)upil of Loonicenus 

 and Manardus, he corrected the errors of Dioscorides and Pliny, in his 

 Examen omnium simplicium Medicamentorum, a work of much reputation iit 

 its day, published at Leyden in 1537. 



