BRASSIA. (2) 
Wild, A, in Jamatca—R. gee Purdie; B, GuatemaLa— 
Skinner, Hartweg, &e., (v. v. 
I am afraid there i Sdoabt about a ies = aT ees the same. The 
identity of RB. sedlats aa guttata has been overloo esume, in conse- 
figu th i 
ras 
an opportunity of examining a specimen in the possession of his Gra ce the 
etre of Northumberland, and I find that this part of the figure is wholly 
ous. The sepals and petals are see a nd in ae usual coer = 
Masespsrvion remarked in the genus. It is much handsom r, and m 
th 
i y 
Mr. Skinner at San Salvador twice as large, and ina specimen — me, 
from the ae of the Horticultural Prat oo larger than even the las 
B. Lan Lindley, in Bot. Reg., t. 1784. Bot. 
‘Mag, ; 8577. Ib. 3194 (?) 
B. petalis labello eequalibus — labello oblongo- 
lanceolato acuminato undulato basi pubescente, lamellis pilosis 
disjunctis proclivibus cornubus 2 c. cre fitehisedie antepositis. 
A) hole bright — sweet-scented, spotted with brown ; the lip 
whole-coloured. Lateral sepals not twice ako ng as the lip 
muarouanhyn. Flowers bright yellow, slightly spotted with 
brown ; lip much paler. Lateral sepals very acuminate, three or four times 
longer than th the lip. 
B. macrostachya. Lindley, Sertum Orchidaceum, t. 6. 
(C ila. Flowers pale yellow, stained with dull purple at the base 
of the ‘sepals, winch are clear yellow. Lip contracted in the middle, dirty 
yellowish brown at base, more than half as long as =the lateral sepals. 
B. pumila "Linden Bot. Reg., 1845, mise. 
Wild in the Wzst Inpies; A, Su rnan—Eaee B, Demerara 
—Loddiges ; C, Caraccas—Linden (2. 
That all these plants are forms of the same species is I fear undeniable, 
notwithstanding the great differences in colour and the size of the i» 
especially in the length of the lateral sepals, which in macrostachya are five 
or more inches long. All are very near B. caudata itself, sao deed: te want 
subt int | i e aristate of tha 
peace hich apa ae ag vse stuliaed Wits andl 3 t th 
8 to pumila w dull purple at the 
base of Gar petals telus no purploon the sepa visting eat arg gee 
it is remarkable for a pair of some ——— 
front of the two two little customary 
* 3. B, Lawrenceana,- oe in Bot. fteg. 1841, mise. 6, 
t. < 
B. sepalis lateralibus labello dupld longioribus, labello 
oblongo-lanceolato acuminatissimo un ulato, lamellis 2 pubes- 
— anticé connatis truncatis. 
B) angusta. All # All the parts very narrow ; the lip aristate with a ten- 
cies Becca. i Bape and Watt Cah 
= Boag - Lindlagy Bet Re, 1844, no. 
