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BRASSIA. 



flowered in April^ 1814. The variety 

 guttata was gathered by Hartweg in 

 Guatemala, in 1836 — 7. 



B. signata. 



P.soiulo - ]ju11)s ovoid - ()l)li)n<^', com- 

 pressed, 3 — 5 inches long, di-triphyll(His. 

 Leaves broadly strap-shaped, sub-acute, 

 9 — 12 inches long. Scapes longer than 

 the leaves, 7 — 10 or more floAvered. 

 Flowers small for the genus; sepals 

 and petals bright green spotted with 

 br()wn on the basal half, the sepals 

 2 inches long, the petals shorter and 

 narrower ; lip oval, sheU-like, suddenly 

 contracted to an acuminate tip, Avhite 

 Avith two brown-purple spots in front 

 of the bilamellate crest, at the base 

 of which is a yellow spot. 



Brassia siguata, P.clib. in Gaid. Cliroii. 

 XVI. (1881), p. 6. 



A small -flowered species introduced 



in 1881 by Messrs. Backhouse^ of which 



the habitat is not recorded. The above 



description was taken from a plant that 



flowered in our houses in May, 1891. 



B. verrucosa. 



Pseudo-bulbs ovoid, much com];)ressed, 

 3 — 4 inches long, ribbed and furrowed 

 on the flattened sides. Leaves linear- 

 acute, 9 — 12 or more inches long. 

 Scapes as long again as the leaves, 

 mottled Avith green and dull crimson, 10 — 15 floAvered. Sepals and 

 petals light yelloAV-green Avith some dark green spots at the base, the 

 sepals 3 — 4 inches long, the petals about half as long ; lip broadly 

 claAved, cordate, apiculate, A\diite Avith numerous dark green flattened 

 Avarts on the claw and basal area of the blade ; crest tAvo-lobed, 

 pubescent, orange-yelloAV Avith tAvo small Avhite teeth in front. 



Brassia verrucosa, LindL in Bot. Reg. 1840, misc. No. 66. Id. Fol. Orch. Brassia, 

 No. 9. Batem. Orch. Alex, et Guat. t. 22. Oncidium verrucosum, Kchb. in Walp. 

 Ann. VI. p. 769. 



A native of Guatemala and probably southern Mexico. It was 



introduced by Messrs. Rollisson, in whose nursery at Tooting it 



Brassia maculata. 



