BRAS SILA. aa 
B. antherotes—A handsome, free-growing plant, with 
healthy, green foliage, and stout flower-spikes, sometimes 
2ft. or more in length, bearing many flowers, each 7in. 
across; the sepals are long and narrow; petals only half 
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Fig. 17. Flower of Brassia Lanceana 
(2 nat. size). 
as long, yellow, brownish black at the base; lip triangular, 
yellow, barred with brown. Brazil (2). Introduced in 
1879. 
B. Gireoudiana.—A fine, bold-growing species, producing 
its many-flowered scapes of singular and beautiful flowers 
during the spring and early summer. The remarkable 
