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BRASSIA cavpaTa. 
Long-tailed Brassia. 
GYNANDRIA MONANDRIA.—Nat. Onp. ORCHIDE. 
Gen. Cuar.—Labellum explanatum indivisum. Petala patula distincta. 
Columna aptera. Masse pollinis duz, postice biloba ; medio affixee pro- 
cessui communi stigmatis.—Br. 
Brassia caudata ; petalis tribus exterioribus valde attenuatis inferiori- 
bus longissimis, labello oblongo acuminulato, foliis lanceolatis binis, 
bulbo-compresso. 
Brassia caudata, Linb-. in Bot. Reg. t. 832. 
Malanis caudata, WiLup. Sp. Pl. v. 4 p. 93- 
Epidendrum caudatum, Linn. Sp. Pl. p. 1349. 
Epidendrum foliis radicalibus lanceolatis, Pum. Plant. Am. t. 177. 
From an oblong, much compressed, thin bulb, about four inches long, arise 
the two lanceolate, obtuse, rather thick, and fleshy leaves, not visibly 
striated, 
The scape is produced from a small sheathing leaf, thickened at the base 
into a sort of bulb; it is a foot or a foot and a half long, terete, here 
and there furnished with a sheathing bractea, and small bractex at the 
base of the flowers. : 
Spike long, lax, of 8 or 10 flowers. Segments of the perianth all spreading 
deep fulvous-yellow, spotted with brown; three outer segments much 
acuminated, their two lowermost ones ending in excessively long points; 
two inner ones lanceolate. Lip pendent, thin, membranaceous, oblong, 
plane, or slightly convex, pale yellow, spotted near the base, and there 
having four white tubercles, two large and oblong, and two smaller co- 
nical ones, the margin waved, ending in a narrow acumen. Column 
very short, green. Anther nearly hemispherical, slightly downy, 2. 
celled, operculiform, containing two obovate pollen-masses, which have 
a depressed spot behind, and which are united by their basis to a small 
whitish gland. Germen subclavate, striated, scarcely twisted, green. 
The superb specimen of this plant here given flowered in 
June 1825, in the stove of the Botanic Garden of Liverpool, 
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