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ovary, which is cuniculate to a remarkable degree, is fully four inches: 
long.” Three years later it was figured in the Botanical Magazine (t. 4474), 
from a plant which flowered at Kew, when Sir William Hooker alluded to- 
it as the most remarkable of all the Brassavolas. The eight pollinia are 
well shown on the plate. 
In 1881 the species was transferred to Lelia by Bentham, who 
Fig. 3. BRASSOCATTLEYA VeitcHutu HoLrorpb’s VAR. (see p. I5)- 
remarked that Brassavola glauca and B. Digbyana had not the 
characteristic perianth of Brassavola, and might pe better placed in 
Lelia (Journ. Linn. Soc., xviii. p. 314). The change was accepted for a 
time, but ultimately had to be abandoned, and it is probable that Bentham 
overlooked the long beaked ovary, a character not found in Lelia. 
The species is apparently rather local. According to Sir Daniel 
