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B. LANCEANA, Liniley. — A free-flowering Orchid, blooming at different 

 times of the year, and bearing yellow fragrant blossoms lightly spotted with 

 brown, which last three weeks in perfection. It has ovate-oblong pseudobulbs, 

 broadly-lanceolate striated leaves, and long racemes of flowers, the peduncle or 

 scape springing from the base of the bulb. There are two varieties of this 

 plant, one named macrosiacJiya, much better than the other, having larger and 

 brighter coloured flowers. — Guiana ; South Brazil. 



Fia.—J3ot. Mag.,t. 3577 ; Id. t. 3794 (var.) ; Bat. Reg., t. 1754 ; Houliey's First Cent. 

 Orcli. Fl., t. 13. 



Syif. — Oneidium suaveolcns. 



B. LAWRENCEANA, Lindley. — A handsome species, blooming abundantly 

 from June to August, and having long racemes of very fragrant flowers, in 

 which the petals are much shorter than the sepals, which are fully three inches 

 long, the lip oblong-la nc:olate acuminate and wavy, with two pubescent connate 

 lamellae, truncate in front. The colour of these flowers is bright yellow tinged 

 with green at the base and spotted with reddish-brown ; they last three or four 

 weeks in good condition, if kept dry. — Brazil. 



Fia.—Bot. Beg., 1841, t. 18 ; Jfooir, 111. Ofch. PI., Brassia, t. 1. 

 Syit. — One id mm Zaiirrenceatiuni. 



B. LAWRENCEANA LONGISSIMA, Bchh.f.—A. very striking variety of the 

 species, in which the sepals are very much lengthened out. The pseudobulbs 

 are oblong, much compressed, three and a half inches long, the leaves six to 

 eight inches long, oblong-lanceolate, and the peduncles radical, many-flowered. 

 The sepals are as much as seven inches long, dark orange-yellow, with large 

 deep red-purple blotches, the ovate-lanceolate pointed lip three inches long, 

 pale yellow, with a row of purple spots surrounding the two truncate pubescent 



lamellae of the disk. The petals are much 

 shorter than the sepals. It is deserving of 

 a place in every collection. — Costa Bica. 



Fig.— Bot. Mag., t. 5748. 



B. MACULATA, B. Brown.— The ori- 

 ginal species and type of the genus. It is 

 a rather showy free-flowering plant, with 

 oblong, compressed pseudobulbs, oblong 

 acute stoutish leaves, and racemes one to 

 ' two feet high of handsome flowers, which 

 spring from the axils of accessory leaves 

 sheathing the bulbs ; the flowers are large, 

 the sepals and petals yellowish spotted with 

 reddish brown, the roundish mucronate lip 

 white spotted with purple towards the base, 



the basilar lamellae pubescent produced into a tooth at the summit. It flowers 



in May and June. — Jamaica. 



Pig. — Bot. Mag., t. 1691 (inaccurate) ; Pcxt. Mag. Bot., vi. 5, with tab. ; VcitcJi'i 

 Man. Orch. PI., viii. p. 126. 



PRASSIA JIACDLATA, 



