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broader basal portion ; lip li^ht y''ll<iw with a riiig of pnrple spots at 



the base ; crest two-ridged, sliglitly pubescent and terminating in 



tubercles. 



B. Lawrenceaiia longissima, Rchb. in Gard. Chron. 1868, p. 1313. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 5748. 



The original Brassia Lawrenceana, figured by Lindley in the 

 Botanical Regi'ster, and whose origin is doubtful, was cultivated by 

 Mrs. Lawrence at Ealing Park, in 1840. Knowles and Westcott^s 

 B. cochleata was sent to Messrs. Low and Co. from Demerara, by 

 their collector Henchman, in 1839. The variety longissima, if variety 

 it is, and which immensely surpasses Lindley's type in size and 

 colour, is a native of Costa Rica, and flowered for the first time 

 in this country in Mr. Wentworth Buller's collection at Strete 

 Ealeigh, near Exeter, in 1868. It is the most remarkable Brassia 

 known. 



Brassia Lawrenceana is only known to us by the figure and descri])tion 

 quoted above, and by which we are rmable to distinguish it from 

 B. Lanceana. The variety longissima is a far more distinct form that 

 cannot be referred with certainty to B. Lanceamtm, and wliicli may 

 hereafter receive separate specific rank. Its habitat too is very remote 

 from the supposed origin of Lindley's type or of Knowles and 

 Westcott's B. cochleata. 



B. maculata. 



Pseudo-bulbs oblong, nuicli compressed, smooth, 3 — 4 inches long, 



monophyllous. Leaves narrowly oblong, sub-acute, 6 — 8 inches long. 



Scapes as long again as the leaves, many flowered. Sepals and petals 



yellowish green spotted with brown on the basal half, tlie sepals aboiit 



3 inches, the petals 2 inches long ; lip broadly clawed, cordate, acute, 

 cream-white dotted with brown-purple ; the bilamellate crest orange- 

 yellow, slightly pubescent. 



Brassia maculata, R. Br. in Ait. Hort. Kew. ed. 2, V. p. 15 (1813). Bot. Maq. 

 t. 1691. Lindl. Gen. et Sp. Orch. p. 212. Id. Fol. Orch. Brassia, No. 1. Paxt. 

 Mag. Bot. VI. p. 5. B. Wiayre, Hook, in Bot. Mag. X. 4003. Oncidium Brassia, 

 Rclib. in Walp. Ann. VI. p. 765. 



var, — guttata. 



"Flowers much .smaller and greenish, with the spots distributed pretty 



equally over the surface." 



B. maculata guttata, Lindl. in Fol. Orch. Brassia, No. 1. B. guttata, Lindl. in 

 I']. Hartw. p. 94. 



The species on which the genus was founded and the first Brassia 

 cultivated in British gardens. It was introduced from Jamaica in 

 the early part of the present century by Sir Joseph Banks, who 

 presented plants to the Royal Gardens at Kew, where one of them 



