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B. Lawrenceana, Lindlei/. — A handsome species, blooming 

 abundantly from June to August, and having long racemes of 

 very fragrant flowers, in which the petals are much shorter 

 than the sepals, which are fully three inches long, the lip 

 oblong-lanceolate acuminate and wavy, with two pubescent 

 connate lamellfe truncate in front. The colour of these flowers- 

 is bright yellow tinged with green at the base and spotted with 

 reddish-brown ; they last three or four weeks in good condition, 

 if kept dry. — Brazil. 



Fig.— Bot. Reg., 1841, t. 18 ; Moore, III. Orch. PL, Brassia, t. 1. 



Syn. — Oncidium Lawrenceanum. 



B. Lawrenceana longissima, Bchb. f. — A very striking 



variety of the species, in which the sepals are very much, 

 lengthened out. The pseudobulbs are oblong, much com- 

 pressed, three and a half inches long, the leaves six to eight 

 inches long, oblong-lanceolate, and the peduncles radical, 

 many-flowered. The sepals are as much as seven inches long, 

 dark orange -yellow, with large deep red-purple blotches, the 

 ovate-lanceolate pointed lip three inches long, pale yellow, with 

 a row of purple spots surrounding the two truncate pubescent 

 lamellae of the disk. The petals are much shorter than the sepals. 

 It is deserving of a place in every collection. — Costa Fdca. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 6718. 



B. maculata, R. Br. — 



The original species and 

 type of the genus. It is a 

 rather showy free-flower- 

 ing plant, with oblong, 

 compressed pseudobulbs, 

 oblong acute stoutish 

 leaves, and racemes one to 

 two feet high of handsome 

 flowers, which spring from 

 the axils of accessory 

 leaves sheathing the bulbs ; 

 the flow^ers are large, the 

 sepals and petals yellow- 

 ish spotted with reddish, 

 brown, the roundish mu- 

 cronate lip white spotted with purple towards the base, the 

 basilar lamellae pubescent produced into a tooth at the 

 summit. It flowers in May and June. — Jamaica. 



FlG.—Bot. Mag., t. 1691 (inaccurate) ; Pa.vt. Mag. Bot, vi. 5, with tab. 



BRASSIA MACULATA. 



