436 ORCHIDES 



BLETIA. 



App. Brassavola grandiflora in the size and form of lip. Only one flower appears on 

 a very short slalk, greenish white, with some lendency to spotling. the flrm and 

 narrow sepals, about three inches long, and curving round ihe lip , the flal part 

 roundish ovate and about iwice ;is long as the rolled up claw. The leaves are re- 

 markably short and sliff. The only plant we know is in the garden of Hort. Soc. 

 where it wos received from Mr. Skinner , and was reported to have pink flowers. — 

 Central-America. Fl. cream colour. 



52. BLETIA LINEATA. Huc : Brassavola lineata Hock. B. Mag. 4734. (1853). 



Folio tereti acuminato itiferne attenuato anlice sulcato , pedun- 

 culo radicali binoro , floribus magnis pendentibus , sepalis petalis- 

 que lineari lanceolatis conformibus, labelli ungue elongato integro, la- 

 mina amplo cordata acuminala, longitudinaliter plicata striata. 



Dr. Lindley has referred me to Brass. acaulis, as allied, but different from this in 



its short leaves, one flowered peduncle, short unguis. 



Huc : Brassavola Mathieuana Klolzsch Allg. Gtz. 1853. 290. 

 Caule ramoso ; foliis teretibus acutis linea caualiculatis, flore soli- 

 tario brevi pedicellato candido ; perianthii foliolis lanceolato linearibus 

 acutis patentibus, labello magno infundibuliformi acuminato integer- 

 rimo, margine acumineque subiindulato reflexo, rnargine convolulo intus 

 ad basin punctis paucis purpureis notalo columna triplo longiore; co- 

 liimna nana, appendicibus duabus lanceolais falcatis instructa. 

 Central-Amerika. Warssewicz, Col. Mathieu. 



54. BLETIA PERRINII. Huc: Brassavola Perrinii Lindl. B. Reg. 1832. 1561. B. Mag. 

 1840. 3761. 



Flore solitario, labello cordato acuminato integerrimo , petalis sepa- 

 lisque linearibus obtusis glabris, dentibus lateralibus clinandrii integris 

 postico serrato, caule ramoso, folio tereti compresso subulato linea 

 canaliculato. 



Brassavola Perrinii Lindl. B. Reg. 1561. . 



Perigonium viride. labellum album viridi venosum. Brazil. Glasgow. 



Besides a diff. in the flowers, this specimes may be further known from B. 

 nodosa and B. cordata by its much slenderer leaves, bracbing stera, and blossoms 

 appearing solitary. 



§S. Pluriflorae. 



55. BLETIA CORDATA. Huc : Brassavola cordata Lindl. B. Reg. XXII. 1836. l. 1914. 

 Labello cordato acuminato integerrimo ungue pariim longiore, sepa- 



palis pelalisque linearibus acuminafis, clinandrio integerrimo poslice 

 in dentem subulatum prodiicto. 



Flowers haif the size of B. nodosa. Brazil. 

 Perigonii phylla viridia, labellum candidum. 



Brassavola cordata B. Mag. 3782 (N, S. XIII). 1840. 



Labello cordato acuminato longiludine unguis, pelalis sepalisque ii- 

 nearibus acuminatis glabris , denlibiis omnibus clinandrii inlegerrimis, 

 caulibus basi nodosis. 



Perigonium viride. rubro adspersum ; labellum candidum. 



Brazil introd. by Loddiges. Our plants receivcd by Mr, Murray from Mr. Thonias 

 Cowan, Overseer on the VVhite River Estate . Jamaica: so that the species would 

 scem 10 have a widely extenied range. It is very closely allied to B. nodosa (B. 

 Mag. X. 3229) a species from which Dr. Lindley distinguishes it by the flowers being 



