cucullata and 
10 THE ORCHID REVIEW. (January, 1y14- 
such a lip naturally appealed to the hybridist, and the attempt to combine 
it with the brilliant colour of some of the popular Cattleyas and allies has 
originated a race of hybrids with fringed lips of the most diversified 
character, which is destined to be still further developed in the future. 
Brassavola Digbyana was originally sent from British: Honduras 
by 
Mrs. McDonald, wife of the Governor of that Col 
ony, to Edward St. 
ig. 2. CAPSULE OF BRASSAVOLA DIGBYANA (see p. 12). 
Vincent Digby, Esq., with whom it flowered at Minterne, Devonshire, 1 
July, 1846, when it was described and figured by Lindley (Bot. Reg., xxxii- 
Lindley had not seen the pollen masses, but thought that it must 
belong to the same genus as Brassavola glauca, and remarked: ‘‘ The 
that borders the lip is quite analagous to what occurs in’ B. 
others, only it is here extremely extended, so as to give the 
flower quite a shaggy appearance.” He also added: ‘‘ The neck ‘of the 
t. -53). 
singular fringe 
