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Bateman, Esq. of Knippersley, who introduced it from Demerara through Mr. 
Colley, his collector , whence the specific name. The petals and calyx leaves are 
of a purple red or dull copper-colour inside, and mixed with green outside. The 
labellum is white, spotted and blotched with red and purple. The flower spike 
springs from the root, and produces from six to twelve flowers, which open in July. 
Our plants do well in well drained pots filled with turfy peat cut in squares and 
mixed with potsherds and rotten wood. 
Brass i a. — I am only acquainted with three named species, the B. Lanceana, 
maculata, and caudata. The first was named after J. H. Lance, Esq., who found 
it growing upon trees in Demerara, and introduced it to this country. It flowers in 
March. The flower spike rises from the root, and produces from twelve to eighteen 
flowers ; these are of a rich yellow, spotted with purple, and delightfully fragrant. 
Our plants thrive in well drained pots filled with turfy peat cut in squares. It is 
said by Dr. Lindley to grow better in leaf mould, but we have not yet tried the 
experiment. The maculata is also very beautiful ; the flowers are pale greenish 
yellow, spotted with purple. The caudata greatly resembles this last, but the 
sepals and petals are more green, and the two lower sepals have tails from four 
to six inches long. They will all thrive with the same kind of treatment. 
Brasavola cucullata and nodosa. — These two species well deserve a place 
in every collection, possessing when in flower a very pleasant fragrance ; the former 
flowers usually in June, the latter in September. They are found growing upon 
trees in the West Indies, where in the evenings, during the seasons of flowering,, 
they fill the surrounding air with their delightful odour. They grow freely with 
us in a damp stove, in well drained pots filled with turfy peat, cut into squares. 
Many persons, however, pot them in a mixture of moss and leaf mould, in which, 
with proper treatment, they thrive very freely. 
Ccelogyne. — This genus contains twenty species or more, very few of which 
have yet found their way into the collections of this country. Amongst the few 
which have been introduced, three species may be selected for a choice collection, 
viz. C. flaccida, nitida, and punctulata (ocellata, Lindl.) The first has not been 
long introduced, and is yet very scarce ; yet our good friend and neighbour, Mr. 
Cooper, flowered it in great perfection at Wentworth in 1833. The flower stem 
rises from the root and droops over the pot, is eight or ten inches long., and produces 
from eight to ten flowers. The petals and calyx-leaves are a clear white, and the 
labellum or lip is the same, but has a blotch of yellow upon it. It was found 
growing upon trees in Nepal, by Dr. Wallich, and by him sent to this country. 
The nitida and the punctulata are said to resemble the flaccida in the colour of the 
flowers, but we have not seen either of them. The nitida emits a pleasant fragrance 
when in flower. They were both discovered by Dr. Wallich growing on trees, the 
former we believe in Nepal, and the latter in Sylhet. They will thrive in turfy 
peat cut into squares, as recommended before, and require a good damp stove heat. 
Catasbtum. — All the plants of this genus are strong and vigorous growing 
plants. M. Henchmann told us, when at Chatsworth, that they were always 
found attached either to the stems or strong branches of soft barked trees ; and 
