BRASSIA ANTHEROTES, 
[PLaTE 159.] 
Native of New Grenada? 
Epiphytal. Pseudobulbs oblong, produced along a creeping rhizome, with lanceolate 
scales at the base, monophyllous or diphyllous. Leaves ligulate-oblong, acute, eight 
or nine inches long, channelled at the base, nervose.’ Scape aitial gracefully 
arching, with a few lance-shaped scales at the base, of a dark purplish brown colour, 
many-flowered. Flowers large, and striking in colour, of firm texture, about six 
inches in the longitudinal and two inches in the cross diameter ; sepals linear 
caudate, tapered to the attenuated apex, the dorsal one erect, the lateral ones directed 
downwards, all bright and very deep yellow, with a blotch of dark purple-brown 
about an inch long at the base, that of the dorsal one almost entire, that of the 
lateral ones broken up into two or three smaller blotches occupying about the same 
space; petals of the same linear caudate form, but about half the leneth of the 
sepals, yellow, with a smaller solid blotch of dark brown-purple; lip oblong, 
extended into a long caudate apex about half as long as the sepals, dilated towards 
the front and also at the base, bright clear yellow, with several small dark spots, 
the margins of the tail-like apex incurved; the disk has an orange-coloured oblong- 
ligulate callus or crest, broader at the base, cohering at the apex, and velvety inside, 
with an angular line on each side in front. Column short, erect, green, the anther- 
case yellowish, and the roundish stigmatic hollow dark purple. 
Brassta AnTHERoTES, Reichenbach fil., in Gardeners’ Chronicle, ¥.s., xii., 782. 
Oncipium anTHERotES, Reichenbach fil., 1. c. in note. 
This genus of Orchids has not received from’ cultivators the attention it deserves, 
for it includes several very pretty species. Some years ago their cultivation was 
more thought of than at present, and splendidly grown plants were to be seen at 
our flower shows. When they are well brought out, with their fine green foliage 
and numerous spikes of quaint-looking flowers, they always attract attention. Possibly 
the cause of this neglect is that there have been so many new things introduced of 
late, especially among the Odontoglots, some of which, after all, are not half so 
beautiful as certain of these Brassias. The specimen of which we now offer a 
representation is one of the better kinds of Brassia, and when we exhibited it at 
the Royal Horticultural Society, South Kensington, it was awarded a First-class 
Certificate, and was greatly admired by those who saw it. We have flowered the 
same plant for two successive years at the Victoria Nurseries, so that we can testify 
it is a species of easy cultivation, and one that blooms very freely. 
