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FLORA AND SYLVA 
in habit of growth and size of flower. 
In this way varieties of one kind have 
frequently been named over again, and 
a confusing Ust of synonyms set up. 
The many pubHshed names can there- 
fore be reduced to a much smaller num- 
ber of distinct kinds, and the group 
might be further simplified were the 
material available for complete revision. 
The following species are known in 
gardens : — 
Brassavola acau/is. — Leaves fleshy and 
drooping. Sepals and petals greenish-white. 
Lip large and cordate, white, with small purple 
markings at the base. A variety known as 
/ineata, is a strong-growing form from Central 
America, with fine flowers. Syn. B. Mathien- 
ana. 
B. Ceboletta. — One of the smaller species, 
allied to B. Perrinii. Brazil. 
B. cordata. — A pretty kind with greenish 
sepals and petals, and a broad, cordate, white 
lip. West Indies. 
B. cucullata. — Habit drooping. Leaves 
fleshy and rounded. Flowers with narrow seg- 
ments extending 3 or 4 inches. Sepals and 
petals usually greenish-white though some- 
times white, with a white lip expanded at 
the base, which is fringed and continued into 
a long narrow blade, in front. Mexico and 
West Indies. Syns. B. ciispidata^ and B. odor- 
atissima. 
B. Digbyana. — Flowers the largest of the 
genus. Sepals and petals mostly pale greenish- 
white, sometimes tinged with purple at the 
back. Lip expanded and deeply fringed, 
creamy-white with a pale greenish disk. 
Flowers fragrant. Plant erect, with com- 
pressed pseudo-bulbs bearing thick, rigid, 
glaucous leaves, 6 or 8 inches long. Hon- 
duras. 
B. glauca. — Similar in habit to B. Digby- 
ana^ but more dwarf and tufted. Flowers 3 
to 4 inches across, and fragrant. Sepals and 
petals greenish ; lip white, cordate, folded 
over the column at the base, and bearing often 
a small purplish blotch at the mouth of the 
tube. Mexico and Guatemala. 
j B. nodosa. — One of the best known kinds 
and a free-growing plant, with rather erect, 
j fleshy, channelled leaves, and upright spikes 
of flowers, which have yellowish-white sepals 
and petals, and white lips. Syn. B. venosa. A 
larger form with showy flowers, known as 
grandijiora, is widely distributed in South 
America, and is also found in Jamaica. 
B. Perrinii. — A well-known plant with 
j greenish sepals and petals, and a white lip. 
Brazil. 
B. tubcrcidata. — This is also one of those 
best known in gardens. It differs from the 
others in having the sepals of its flowers more 
or less spotted with purple. Lip white. Syns. 
B. fragrans., and B. Gibbsiana. Brazil. 
Less important species are B. angustata, B. 
Jilifo/ia, B.jiagellaris^ B. Pufnilio, B. retusa., B. 
' revoluta., B. subulif oHa., and B. vomeriformis. 
The raisers of garden hybrids 
hybrids. have turned their attention 
mostly to B. Digbyana. This 
has been found to cross very freely with 
; Cattleyas and La^lias when used as the pollen 
parent, but although many raisers have tried 
to get good results from it as a seed-bearer, 
and some have claimed success, no such plant 
has ever yet flowered. At p. 265 of Vol. II. 
of Flora and Sylva, in an article accompany- 
ing a coloured plate of Brassocattleya x Imper- 
atrice de Russie, is a full list of the showier 
hybrid forms of Brassavola Digbyana but given 
as hybrids of Lce/io-Digbyana^ and styled Laelio- 
Cattleyas. There remains therefore but to 
change Laelia for Brassavola, and Laelio- 
Cattleya for Brassocattleya, and the list stands 
good. 
The following should however be added to 
it : — Brassocattleya x Digbyano-Mossice " Queen 
Alexandra^'' the first pure white form of crosses 
with the large-flowered Cattleyas, and the re- 
sult of crossing the albino C. Mossia Wageneri; 
Brassocattleya x Digbyano-Mossice, Westonbirt 
variety, the finest dark rose form ; Brassocat- 
tleya X Digbyano-Warneri ^""Eric Lucas also a 
brightly coloured flower ; 2.nA Brassocattleya x 
Digbyano-Schroderce alba^ a blush-white variety, 
with primrose-yellow disc to the lip. 
In the round-leaved section of the genus 
the first hybrid to appear was a natural cross, 
Brassocattleya x Lindleyana ( B. tuber culata x 
