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subulifolia, Lindl.)- In 1839, Lindley described a plant which had been 

 collected in Nicaragua, and sent home by the Hon. W. F. Strangeways, as 

 B. grandiflora (Bot. Reg., xxv., Misc., p. 16), but it afterwards proved to be 

 only a fine form of B. nodosa ; and a year later he described another form 

 of the same plant, which Messrs. Loddiges had imported from Honduras, 

 as B. venosa (Bot. Reg., xxvi., p. 20, t. 39.). It is a common and widely- 

 diffused species, ranging from South Mexico through Guatemala, British 

 Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, and various parts of Columbia, to 

 Guayaquil and Peru, and is also found in Jamaica. The following 

 additional figures may be mentioned:— B. nodosa, Lindl. Bot. Reg., t. 1465 ; 

 Bot. Mag., t. 3229. Epidendrum nodosum, L. ; Jacq. Sel. Stirp. Amer., 

 p. 226, 1. 140. B. venosa, Lindl. ; Bot. Mag., t. 4021. B. rhopalorrhachis, 

 Rchb. f. (Bot. Zeit. x., p. 855), described in 1852 from dried specimens 

 collected in Guatemala, by Friedrichsthal, and now cultivated at Glasnevin, 

 seems to be only a form of B. nodosa. 



2. B. acaulis (Lindl. in Paxt. Fl. Gard., ii., p. 152, fig. 216) was 

 introduced from Guatemala by Mr. Skinner, and flowered in the Horti- 

 cultural Society's garden in 1851. It is a fine species, about equal to the 

 preceding in size, but is easily distinguished by having the stalk of the lip 

 relatively shorter and fully three times as broad. The species only seems 

 to be known by the original specimen and figure, the latter having been 

 reproduced in the Orchidophile, 1884, pp. 238, 239, with fig. B. lineata 

 (Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 4734) flowered in the Nursery of Messrs. Jackson, of 

 Kingston, in June, 1853, from a plant purchased at one of Warscewicz's 

 sales in London in the previous year. It is a native of Central America. 

 Shortly afterwards a plant from the same source flowered in the collection 

 of Herr. L. Matthieu, in Berlin, and was described by Klotzsch under the 

 name of B. Mathieuana (Allg. Gartenz, xxi., p. 290.). I do not find any 

 marked character by which to separate this species from B. acaulis, and am 

 inclined to think it a form of the same species. 



3. B. subulifolia was described by Lindley in 1831 (Gen. & Sp. Orch., 

 p. 114), from a dried specimen in Lambert's Herbarium, which had been 

 collected in the island of St. Nevis, W. Indies, by Tobin. Two years later 

 a plant which flowered in the collection of Charles Horsfall, Esq., Mayor 

 of Liverpool, and which had been received from William Parke, Esq., 

 Jamaica, in the previous year, was figured in the Botanical Magazine 

 (t. 3229), under the name of Brassavola nodosa, Lindl. It is, indeed, 

 Sloane's Jamaica plant which was included by Lindley under B. nodosa, 

 but not the Colombian plant upon which that species was primarily based, 

 and it appears to be identical with B. subulifolia, Lindl., though I have not 

 seen the original specimen of that. It may be added that Mr. Horsfall's 

 plant flowered in January, 1832, and that its flowers were observed to be 



