40 THE ORCHID REVIEW. ( Fepruary, 1918. 
RASSAVOLA cucullata is a remarkable Central American Orchid; 
which was originally introduced from the West Indies by Rear- 
Admiral William Bligh, in 1793, and flowered for the first time in this 
country in the bark stove of Edward Woodford, Esq., of Vauxhall, in 
September, 1801. It was then figured as Epidendrum cucullatum, Sims 
o| BPRASSAVOLA “<CUCULLATA. 
Fig. 4. BRASSAVOLA CUCULLATA. 
(Bot. Mag., t. 543), but some years later was separated by Robert Brow® 
under the name of Brassavola cucullata (Ait. Hort. Kew., ed. 2, v- p- 249% 
thus becoming the type of the new genus. It has since been found im 
Mexico, British Honduras, and Venezuela. The character of the flower is 
well shown in the annexed figure, which is reproduced from a photograph 
sent by the late Frau Ida Brandt, of Zurich. The plant is of pendulow 
