124 BRASSIA. 



oblancoolate, anito, 9 — 12 inches long. Scapes as long as or longer 



than the leaves, 7—10 or more flowered. Sepals and petals light 



yellow si)otted -with brown on the basal half, the sepals 2|— 3 



inches long, the petals half as long; lip oblong, acute, undulate, 



cream-white Avith. a few brown spots in front of the wliite and 



orange two-lobed crest. 



Brassia Lanceana, Lindl. in Bot. Tug. t. 1784 (1836). Bot. Mag. t. 3577(1837). 

 Id. t. 3794 (viridifiora ?). Lindl. Fol. Orch. Brassia, No. 2. Oncidium suaveolens, 

 Echb. in "Walp. Ann. YI. p. 765. 



var.— macrostachya. 



Flowers ranch larger, " bright yellow slightly spotted with brown ; lip 



much paler ; lateral sepals very acuminate, three or four times longer 



than the lip." 



B. Lanceana macrostachya, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Brassia, No. 2. B. macrostachya, 

 Lindl. Sert. Orch. t. 6. 



var.— pumila. 



Plant dwarf. " Flowers pale yellow stained with dull pur])le at the 

 base of the sepals ; lip contracted in the middle, yellowish broA\'n at the 

 base." 



B. Lanceana pumila, Lindl. Fol. Orch. Brassia, No. 2. B. pumila, Lindl. in 

 Bot. Reg. 1845, misc. 62. 



The type wu.s discovered in Surinam (Dutch Guiana) by Mr. 

 John Henry Lance, who sent plants to the Horticultural Society of 

 London^ in 18-34. The variety macrostachya was imported from 

 Demerara by Loddiges, in whose nursery it flowered in 1836; it is 

 probably not now in cultivation ; it appears to bear a similar 

 relation to the type as Brassia hrachiafa to B. verrucosa. The 

 variety pumila was gathered by Linden in Caracas, and was 

 cultivated by Mr. Barker, of Birmingham, in 1845; it has probably 

 since disappeared from cultivation. 



B. Lawrenceana. 



Pscud(i-l(ull)s, leaves and inflorescence as in Brassia Lanceana. Sepals 

 and petals light yellow spotted Avith broAvn on the basal half, the 

 sepals about 3 inches long, the petals half as long ; lip oblong-lanceolate, 

 acute, light yellow ; crest two-keeled, truncate in front, Avhite spotted 

 Avith orange-yelloAv. 



Brassia Lawrenceana, Liud. in Bot. Beg. 1841, misc. No. 6, and t. 18. Id. Fol. 

 Orch. Brassia, No. 3. B. cochleata, Knowles and Westc. Fl. Cab. t. 53,* ex Lindl. 

 Fol. Orch loc. cit. Oncidium Lawrenceanum, Rchb. in Walp. Ann. VL p. 766. 



var. — longissima. 



FloAvers much larger and difi'erently coloured, the sepals 7 inches long ; 

 sepals and petals orange-yelloAv Avith large red-purple blotches on the 



* This drawing is so imperfectly executed that it is impossible to say with certainty to which 

 species the plant it represents should be referred. 



