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fragrant at night. In 1836, Lindley figured a plant in the Botanical 

 Register, said to have been imported from Brazil by Messrs. Loddiges, 

 under the name of Brassavola cordata (t. 1913), and in 1840 it was also 

 figuredinthe Botanical Magazine (t. 3782), with the remark that "our plants 

 were received by Mr. Murray from Mr. Thomas Cowan, Overseer on the 

 White Estate, Jamaica — so that the species would appear to have a widely 

 extended range." The Brazilian habitat, however, has never been 

 confirmed, and there can be little doubt that it is erroneous. There is, 

 indeed, a specimen in Lindley's Herbarium, with a coloured drawing of the 

 lip, labelled " 636* Jamaica, Loddiges," which itself suggests a doubt as to 

 the record, for although unlabelled, and not the type specimen of B. 

 cordata, it represents the same species. In 1864, Grisebach established a 

 new species under the name of B. Sloanei (Fl. Brit. W. hid., p. 620), under 

 which he included B. subulifolia, Lindl., B. nodosa, Hook. f. Bot. Mag. 

 t. 3229, and Sloane's original figure (Sloane, Hist. Jamaic. i., p. 251, t. 121, 

 fig. 3), and this he distinguished from B. cordata, Lindl, ; but on comparison 

 of all the materials, I think that the distinction cannot be maintained, and 

 Sloane's original figure, which represents a wild specimen, clearly belongs 

 to B. cordata. The other two seem to be weak cultivated specimens. 

 The species is common in Jamaica, and I have seen no specimens from 

 elsewhere, though the St. Nevis habitat is presumably correct. The 

 flowers are about half as large and twice as numerous as in B. nodosa. 



3 a. B. stricta {Gard. Chron., 1885, xxiii., pp. 501, 505, fig. 92) is an un- 

 known species. The figure represents a fruit, having a very short beak, and 

 the persistent remains of the sepals and petals, with a very short column. 

 It may belong to a species of this section, if it really belongs to the genus 

 at all. 



The section Sessililabia is characterized by having the lip sessile and 

 broad from the base. Its shape is either ovate or elliptical, sometimes 

 with a more or less acuminate apex, and the margin may be either entire or 

 fimbriate. In the pendulous habit, narrow fleshy leaves, and narrow sepals 

 and petals, it much resembles the preceding section, but the beak of the 

 ovary is usually longer, and sometimes very long. Besides the following, 

 there are about four others more or less imperfectly known, and not yet 

 introduced to cultivation. 



4. B. tuberculata (Hook. Bot. Mag., t. 2878) flowered in the collec- 

 tion of Richard Harrison, Esq., of Aigburth, Liverpool, in July, 1828. It 

 had been sent from Botofugo Bay, near Rio de Janeiro, by Mr. Henry 

 Harrison. The plant differs from its allies in having the sepals and petals 

 more or less spotted with purple. The plant figured in the Illustration 

 Horticolc as Brassavola fragrans, Lem. (v., t. 180) has similar markings, 

 and is evidently a form of the same species, and the same may be said of 



